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Steve and Woz build anf illegally sell "blue boxes" that allow to make phone calls for free
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Woz and Steve show the early Apple I board at the Homebrew Computer Club
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Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobses’ garage, and sell them to computer hobbyists, including 50 for the Byte Shop
Sring of 1976 -
Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne
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Apple makes a huge sensation at the West Coast Computer Faire with a protype Apple II
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Steve Jobs is shown the first working graphical user interface at Xerox PARC
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Apple launches Apple III, which will probe a disastrous flop
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Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs’ net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million
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Jef Raskin is forced out of his Macintosh project as Steve Jobs takes over
Early 1981 -
Black Wednesday: 50 Apple employees laid off by CEO Mike Scott without notice. The board asks him to leave shortly afterwards. Mike Markkula becomes interim CEO