The original Apple Computer, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company ( now Apple Inc .) in 1976.

Introductory advertisement for the Apple I Computer

In 1976, Concord High School Junior Wai Lee assembled one of the first 12 Apple Is ( no serial number ), the first Apple Computer in an aluminum housing.

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

* Price, Rob, So Far: the First Ten Years of a Vision, Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA, 1987, ISBN 1-55693-974-4

* Apple 1 Computer Registry

Version 4. 1, in a slightly modified form, was also the standard operating system for the Apple Network Server systems sold by Apple Computer to complement the Macintosh line.

So they decided to designed a TRS-80 and CP / M software compatible computer system, which ( following the lead of Apple Computer ) they decided to name after a " typical Dutch flower ".

* Audio Units, a system level plug-in architecture from Apple Computer

Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990.

The use of letter " i " prefixes and suffixes to denote information technology or interactivity was very much in vogue at this time, notably with the launch of the iMac and the iPod by Apple Computer ; according to the BBC, the " i " in BBCi stood for " interactivity " as well as " innovation ".

Soon there was an all-out price war involving Commodore, TI, Atari and practically every vendor other than Apple Computer.

The two price wars resulting from Compaq's actions ultimately drove numerous competitors from the market, such as Packard Bell, and by 1994 Compaq had overtaken Apple Computer and even surpassed I. B. M.

Compaq originally competed directly against IBM, manufacturing computer systems equivalent with the IBM PC, as well as Apple Computer.

It was created in the early 1990s by a group led by Apple Computer.

Dylan was created in the early 1990s by a group led by Apple Computer.

It was announced early in 1983 with a fall introduction at the target price of $ 500 for plug-in AppleNet cards for the Lisa and the Apple II.

At the time, they announced that " Apple realized that it's not in the business to create a networking system.

Adaptors for Apple II and Apple III were also announced.

Apple also announced that AppleBus networks could be attached to, and would appear to be a single node within, a Token Ring system.

By this point Apple had a wide variety of communications products under development, and many of these were announced along with AppleTalk Phase II.

* 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.

On May 20, 2005, Apple and the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of some Apple PowerBook G4 batteries.

On August 24, 2006, Apple and the CPSC announced an additional recall of more batteries for the same PowerBook models.

When TrueType and the license to Microsoft was announced, John Warnock of Adobe gave an impassioned speech in which he claimed Apple and Microsoft were selling snake oil, and then announced that the Type 1 format was open for anyone to use.

After Apple bought NeXT in 1997, it announced it would base its next operating system on OPENSTEP.

Negotiations between Apple and Adobe over the use of Postscript began in 1983 and an agreement was reached in December 1983, one month before Macintosh was announced.

In 1994, as customer anticipation increased for Microsoft's new version of Windows ( codenamed " Chicago "), Apple announced a set of upgrades to its own System 7 operating system that were not due to be released until two years later.

When the Apple IIGS computer was introduced by Apple Computer in September 1986, Apple also announced it would be making an upgrade kit for the IIe available for purchase.

The iPod line was announced by Apple on October 23, 2001, and released on November 10, 2001.

On February 21, 2012 Apple announced that it would open a " Green Data Center " on a 160 acre tract of land owned by the company.

In May 2012, Apple announced it would generate 60 percent of the Maiden facility ’ s power itself, through a large deployment of fuel cells at the site and a 100-acre solar farm, with an additional 150-acre site, two miles away.

On August 12, 2004 Johansen announced on his website that he defeated Apple's AirPort Express's encryption which lets users stream Apple Lossless files to their AirPort Expresses.

In October 2006, Johansen and DoubleTwist Ventures announced they had reverse engineered Apple Computer's DRM for iTunes, called FairPlay.

In 1994 Apple Computer introduced Macintosh computers using these PowerPC CPUs, but IBM's intention to produce its own desktop computers using these processors was thwarted by delays in Windows NT and a falling out with Microsoft.

The company is a former developer of Macintosh and Apple II games, the former of which they still currently sell, however have recently stated their intention to focus solely on iPhone games.

This estrangement was quickly repaired by successor Iger upon Eisner's exit, and on January 24, 2006, the company announced it would acquire Pixar in an all-stock deal worth US $ 7. 4 billion, catapulting Jobs, also co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc, to Disney's largest shareholder with 7 % of the corporation's outstanding shares.

Alfke originally developed it in his free time as Antler Notes and intended to release it as shareware doing business as Antler Software ; Apple planned to acquire it from him, but discovered that they already legally owned it under the terms of his employment.

On May 25, 2006, Apple Inc. and Pearson Education announced that Pearson was to acquire PowerSchool, " Apple ’ s award-winning student information systems ( SIS ) division.

Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $ 429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

* 1996 – NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.

The 68030 was used in many models of the Apple Macintosh II and Commodore Amiga series of personal computers, NeXT Cube, Sun Microsystems Sun 3 / 80 desktop workstation ( a member of the " sun3x " architecture, where the earlier " sun3 " used a 68020 ), later Alpha Microsystems multiuser systems, and some descendants of the Atari ST line such as the Atari TT and the Atari Falcon.

Another of the original Mach developers, Avie Tevanian, was formerly head of software at NeXT, then Chief Software Technology Officer at Apple Computer until March 2006.

NeXT was founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs after he was fired from Apple the same year.

Apple purchased NeXT on December 20, 1996 for $ 429 million and 1. 5 million shares of Apple stock, and much of the current OS X and iOS operating systems are built on the OPENSTEP foundation.

NeXT's first workstation was officially named the NeXT Computer, although it was widely referred to as " the cube " because of its distinctive case, a 1 ft x 1 ft x 1 ft magnesium cube, an edict of Jobs ' designed by Apple IIc case designer Frogdesign.

Several NeXT executives replaced their Apple counterparts when Steve Jobs restructured the company's board of directors.

Jobs had experimented with some structural changes at Apple but at NeXT he abandoned conventional corporate structures, instead making a " community " with " members " instead of employees.

* Full acquisition / merger contract between Apple and NeXT

When Steve Jobs left Apple and started NeXT, he pitched Adobe on the idea of using PS as the display system for his new workstation computers.

When Apple Inc. bought NeXT, and used NeXTSTEP to construct Mac OS X, they replaced Display PostScript with Quartz.

* December 20 – Steve Jobs ' company NeXT is bought by Apple Computer, the company co-founded by Jobs.

* NeXT is founded by Steve Jobs after he resigns from Apple Computer.

Following an announcement on December 20, 1996, on February 4, 1997, Apple Computer acquired NeXT for $ 429 million, and used the OPENSTEP for Mach operating system as the basis for OS X.

Following the demise of the various incarnations of NeXT ( started by Steve Jobs in the late 1980s and merged with Apple Computer in 1997 ), the Trillium software was published under the GNU General Public License, with work continuing as gnuspeech.

As Steve Jobs lost the original power struggle at Apple and left to found NeXT, his angel investor was Perot who invested over 20 million dollars because he believed in Jobs and did not want to miss out as he had when had the chance to invest in Bill Gates ' fledging Microsoft.

It is now distributed with Mac OS X since Apple Inc .' s acquisition of NeXT, and available as a GNUstep application for other Unix-compatible operating systems such as Linux.

In the late 1980s several companies were actively watching the 88000 for future use, including NeXT, Apple Computer and Apollo Computer, but all gave up by the time the 88110 was available in 1990.

Since Apple Inc's merger with NeXT in 1996, EOF has evolved into a fully integrated part of WebObjects, an application server also originally from NeXT.