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Chronology of the Apple Computer until 1987

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• 1971 Stephen Wozniak and Bill Fernandez build their "Cream Soda computer."
• 1972 Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs begin selling blue boxes.
• 1973 Stephen Wozniak joins Hewlett-Packard.
• 1974 Steve Jobs joins Atari
• 1975 Apple I
• 1976 Apple becomes a company
1. Wozniak and Jobs form the Apple Computer Company on April Fool's Day.
2. Apple Computer opens its first offices in Cupertino and introduces the Apple II. It is the first personal computer with color graphics. It has a 6502 CPU, 4KB RAM,16KB ROM, keyboard, 8-slot motherboard, game paddles, and built-in BASIC.
• 1978 Apple introduces and begins shipping disk drives for the Apple II and initiates the LISA research and development project.
• 1980 Apple III
• 1983 Three new products from Apple
1. Apple Computer announces Lisa, the first business computer with a graphical user interface launched by Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, California. The computer has 5MHz 68000 CPU, 860KB 5.25 floppy, B&W screen, detached keyboard, and mouse.
2. Apple IIe
3. Apple III+
• 1984 The Macintosh and 2 other new products
1. Macintosh personal computer, launched by Apple Computer Inc. The first computer has 128KB of memory and a 3.5" 400KB floppy disk-drive. The OS with astounding graphic interface is bundled with MacWrite (wordprocessor) and MacPaint (free-hand, B&W drawing) software.
2. Apple introduces 3.5" floppy.
3. Apple IIc
• 1985 Apple IIe Enhanced
• 1986 Two new computers
1. Macintosh +
2. Apple II GS
• 1987 Apple IIe Platinum