The Macintosh computer goes on sale.ġ985: Jobs and Sculley clash, leading to Jobs' resignation. to serve as Apple's CEO.ġ984: Iconic "1984" Macintosh commercial directed by Ridley Scott airs during the Super Bowl. Jobs lures John Sculley away from Pepsico Inc. Revenue reaches $1 million.ġ978: Jobs' daughter Lisa is born to girlfriend Chrisann Brennan.ġ979: Jobs visits Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC, and is inspired by a computer with a graphical user interface.ġ980: Apple goes public, raising $110 million in one of the biggest initial public offerings to date.ġ982: Annual revenue climbs to $1 billion.ġ983: The Lisa computer goes on sale with much fanfare, only to be pulled two years later. It unveils Apple II, the first personal computer to generate color graphics. Return to start of sidebar.ġ977: Apple is incorporated by its founders and a group of venture capitalists. The Apple I computer goes on sale by the summer for $666.66. A third co-founder, Ron Wayne, leaves the company after less than two weeks. 24, adopted and named Stephen Paul Jobs.ġ972: Jobs enrolls at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but drops out after a semester.ġ974: Jobs works for video game maker Atari and attends meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak, a high school friend who was a few years older.ġ975: Jobs and Woz attend Homebrew Computer Club meetings.ġ976: Apple Computer is formed on April Fool's Day, shortly after Wozniak and Jobs create a new computer circuit board in a Silicon Valley garage. KEY dates from the life and work of Steve Jobsġ955: Born on Feb.
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