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Apple I
Woz and Steve show the early Apple I board at the Homebrew Computer Club -
steve jobs, steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne
Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne -
Computer Faire
Apple makes a huge sensation at the West Coast Computer Faire with a prototype Apple II -
Apple II
The Apple II becomes the first mass-market personal computer, with impressive sales around the US. Apple becomes a symbol of the personal computing revolution -
Lisa
Steve's ex-girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan gives birth to their daugher Lisa. Steve refuses to acknowledge he is the father.At Apple, work starts on the Apple III and the Lisa, while Jef Raskin begins The Book of Macintosh -
xerox PARC
Steve Jobs is shown the first working graphical user interface at Xerox PARC.Sales of Apple II skyrocket after pioneer spreadsheet software Visicalc is introduced -
Apple III
Apple launches the Apple III, which will prove a disastrous flop -
steve Job´s net
Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs' net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million -
time magazine
A portrait of Steve Jobs ends up on the cover of Time Magazine, under the title 'Striking it Rich'. Steve trusts Time correspondent Michael Moritz to follow him on the Mac team for months, hoping to become Man of the Year -
journalists
Time instead makes The Computer 'machine of the year' and publishes a hatchet job on Steve Jobs, who becomes furious and suspicious of journalists for the rest of his life -
30th Birthday
Steve Jobs celebrates his 30th birthday in great fanfare, with Ella Fitzgerald as guest singer for the night -
microsoft
Microsoft celebrates its 10th anniversary with sales figures for the fiscal year of 1985 of $140 million. The company has 900 employees and a diverse product line including industry standards like operating systems, languages, business software, hardware, and computer "how-to" books. -
Steve jobs resings
Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple. Apple announces it will sue NeXT -
computer II
Pixar launches its new computer graphics workstation, the Pixar Image Computer II, and starts working on the RenderMan computer animation software -
Entrepreneur of the decade
Steve Jobs is named 'Entrepreneur of the decade' by Inc. magazine -
marriage
Steve Jobs marries Laurene Powell in Yosemite under the blessing of Steve's old zen guru Kobin Chino. Laurene is already pregnant -
toy story
Pixar resumes work on Toy Story -
PIXAR
One week after Toy Story is out, Pixar goes public. Steve Jobs's worth rises to $1.5 billion, more than it ever was during his first tenure at Apple -
deal
Steve Jobs negotiaties a breakthrough deal between Pixar and Disney with its CEO Michael Eisner. The deal includes landmark rights for a studio, such as equal billing -
apple buys NeXT
Apple, which was desperately looking for a modern operating system to buy, eventually buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs is named "informal adviser" to Apple CEO Gil Amelio -
Apples new board with Microsoft
Steve Jobs introduces Apple's new board of directors and a truce with Microsoft at Macworld Boston -
iMac
Steve Jobs introduces Apple's revolutionary iMac at the Flint Center auditorium in Cupertino, 14 years after he had introduced the Macintosh at that same place -
iBook
The original iBook is unveiled at Macworld New York with the tagline iMac to go. Steve Jobs invites Noah Wyle on stage to impersonate him again -
Apple´s CEO
At Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs drops the 'interim' in his title and officially becomes Apple’s CEO. He also demoes Mac OS X's revolutionary Aqua interface to a bewildered audience -
MacOS
After four years of hard work, Mac OS X 10.0, the new incarnation of NeXTSTEP, ships -
iPod
After an 8-month crash development program, Steve Jobs unveils iPod at a small media event on the company's campus. He has no idea how it will tranform Apple -
Pixar
Jobs buys the computer division of George Lucas' ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar.Pixar unveils John Lasseter’s short film Luxo Jr. at SIGGRAPH. It is praised by the expert audience as one of the first computer-animated work of art -
biological mother
Steve's mother Clara dies. A couple months later, Steve discovers his biological mother Joanne and his sister, novelist Mona Simpson. They will become close friends. Steve´s sister in the photo. -
retail stores
Apple opens its first Retail Stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California
