1976
Steven Wozniak and
Steven Jobs designed and built the Apple One in their
garage. Jobs insisted that they should seel the design.
The Apple One was merely a wooden box containing soem
circuit boards, with no kwyboard or monitor. On April 1,
1976, Apple Computer was born.
1977
The Apple II debuted at
a local computer trade show. It was the first computer to
have a plastic case. It was also the first personal
computer to feature colour graphics. However, it did not
come with a monitor or disk drive and it only typed in
uppercase. It was designed as a hobbyist computer. The
Apple II was very well received.
1978
The Apple Disk II was
introduced. It was a "twiggy" floppy drive as it was
called, which was the most inexpensive and easy to use
floppy drive ever at that time. Apple sales further
increased after the introduction of the Apple Disk
II.
1979
Steve Jobs visited
Xerox PARC. After the visit he realizes the future of computing would
be based on a graphical user interface.
1980
Apple III introduced.
Apple began to sell computers abroad.
1983
The Apple Lisa introduced. It's high price US$10000 proved it to be a flop.
1984
The Lisa II, an
improvment upon the original Lisa was introduced. The
original Macintosh 128K was also released, making sales
of the Lisa decrease even further. In September, the 512K
was released.
1985
The LaserWriter and the
PostScript page description language were introduced.
Along with Aldus' PageMaker, the first desktop publishing
program, the Macintosh became an ideal system for
inexpensive publishing. Apple sales was increaed as a
result.
1986
The Macintosh Plus was
introduced, with a "whopping one full megabyte of
memory." The Apple IIgs was realeased in September. It
was a totally incompatible with the Macintosh
platform.
1987
The Macintosh SE was
inroduced. It was the first Mac to have a built-in hard
drive, an expansion slot and a cooling fan.
1989
The Macintosh SE/30 was
inroduced. It was the first Mac that was built around the
32-bit 68030 processor, to have a floating point
processing unit, and with a built-in high-density floppy
drive. An external colour monitor can also be connected
to the SE/30.
1990
The Macintosh Classic
was introduced.
1991
The Macintosh Classic II was introduced.
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