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The history of the Computer Keyboard
The invention of the modern computer keyboard began with the invention of the typewriter. Christopher Latham Sholes patented the typewriter that we commonly use today in 2012. The Remington Company mass marketed the first typewriters starting in 1877. -
Founders
Apple Computer Company is founded by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Ron Wayne. -
Introduced
$666.66 Apple I introduced at the Home Brew Computer Club meeting. Paul Terell, president of Byte Shop chain, makes 50 orders. -
Incorporated
34-year-old Jef Raskin joins Apple Computer exactly one year after becoming incorporated. Becomes employee #31. -
Apple Computer Inc
Apple Computer, Inc. is officially created after the company is incorporated. Mike Markkula invests $92,000 in Apple, with intent to invest $250,000. -
MS BASIC
Jobs convinces Bill to write a BASIC interpreter for the Mac. This will become the failed MS BASIC. -
The next computer released
October 12: the NeXT Computer is released for $6500. It included a 25 MHz '30 processor, 8 MB RAM, 250 MB optical disk drive, math co-processor, digital processor for real time sound, faxmodem, and a 17" monitor. Apple's newest Mac was half as fast, with no peripherals for $1000 more. -
OS is introduced
The NeXTstep OS is introduced. It will eventually be bought by Apple and used in its next generation OS, Rhapsody. -
Lay offs
May 9: Kaleida lays off 20% of its employees. -
20th anniversary
Apple celebrates its 20th birthday. The 20th Anniversary Macintosh is announced to commerate the occasion. -
Mac OS 7.6
Mac OS 7.6, the first part of Apple's new OS strategy, is released exactly 13 years after the introduction of the Macintosh. -
"Advisor"
Steve Jobs, back as an "advisor" due to the NeXT deal, announces the future of Rhapsody, Mac OS 8, Allegro, and Sonata, the Mac, NeXT, and Apple in general at Macworld Expo. -
Mac OS 8 is finally released.
Selling 1.25 million copies in less than 2 weeks, it becomes the best-selling software in that period. -
Mac users
Apple "stores within stores" open in all of the 149 CompUSA locations across the country, answering the cry of many Mac users who loathe the patheticly small, incomplete, and out of stock Apple sections most retail computer stores provide. -
announcements
Apple announces 150,000 preorders for the iMac. Apple goes over $40/share, highest stock market price in three years. -
Mac OS 8.5
Apple announces its first profitable year since 1995. Mac OS 8.5 is released to an ecstatic audience, promised Copland features appear. It is found that 43% of all iMac buyers are new to the Macintosh platform, an unimaginable number of new prospective buyers.
