My Life

Drew Waite

1976 1984- 2005-

1994-97
88 Future

1977- 1989- 1995-

83 93 2005
 1976
 In April 1976 the Apple I came out for consumers.

 It’s asking price was $666 for the OS.

 It was invented by a long time worker of Hewlett-

Packer,
Steve Wozniak

 It was a Command Line OS

and did BASIC programs.
 1977-83
 The Apple II came out in 1977 and was
originally running only the built-in BASIC
interpreter

 The last version was Apple DOS 3.3

 The Apple II was eventually upgraded to

the Apple II Plus, in 1979

 The Apple II was succeeded by

the Apple III in May 1980
 1984-88
 In 1984 Apple launched the next Macintosh While
the Macintosh initially sold well, follow-up sales
were not particularly strong .

 The machine's fortunes changed with the

introduction of the LaserWriter

 It was the first laser printer to be

offered at a reasonable price point,

 It also came with PageMaker,

an early desktop publishing (DTP) package.
 1989-93
 In 1989 Apple turned to industrial designers and
adopted a product strategy based in three
portable devices.

 In 1991 Apple came out with the Powerbook 100

 It revolutionized the computer industry with

having an onboard modem and user friendly or
“ergonomic” layout.
 1994-97
 In 1994 Apple surprised its loyalists by allying
with its long-time competitor IBM and CPU maker
Motorola in the so-called AIM alliance.

 On November 10, 1997, Apple

announced a new online retail store.

 It announced at the same time as

new machines using the G3
PowerPC processor, a big upgrade in processors
 1998-2005
 In 2001, Apple introduced Mac OS X, the
operating system based on NeXT's OPENSTEP
which is object orientated.

 Mac OS X sought to help the stability, reliability

and security of the Unix operating system with
the ease of use afforded by a completely
overhauled user interface

 On October 23, 2001 Apple introduced its first

iPod portable digital audio player
 2006-Future
 Apple's current operating system, Mac OS X 10.4
"Tiger", runs natively on the new Intel machines

 On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced at

Macworld 2007 that Apple Computer Inc. would
be known as Apple Inc.

 On February 7, 2007, Apple Inc. indicated that it

would open its iTunes store to other portable
players besides its own iPod
 Bibliography
 http://www.apple2history.org/history/ah02.html
History for Apple I and II

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc
History for Apple II

 http://www.markusehrenfried.de/mac/applehistory.html
History of the Apple Mac
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