Apple
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, and released
a series of 6502-based microcomputers beginning with Apple I kit, followed
by the Apple II, II+, IIe, IIc and IIGS.
Jobs developed an interest in the GUI work at Xerox PARC which resulted
in the Xerox Alto. After purchasing the rights to various key intellectual
components, Apple would create its first GUI based computer in the form of
the Lisa. However, Lisa was expensive, and attracted limited interest from
third parties to develop applications software.
A second attempt at a GUI computer resulted in a cheaper model which had
much more success: the Macintosh. Launched in 1984, the Macintosh was
followed by a large number of successors:
- Macintosh (1984)
- Macintosh Plus (1986)
- Macintosh II, SE (1987)
- Macintosh IIx (1988)
- Macintosh IIcx, IIci, SE/30, Portable (1989)
- Macintosh IIfx, IIsi, Classic, LC (1990)
- Macintosh Quadra 700, Quadra 900, Classic II, LC II, PowerBook 100, 140, 170 (1991)
- Macintosh Quadra 610, Quadra 800, Quadra 950, Classic II, Colour Classic, Centris 610, Centris 650, PowerBook Duo, 145, 160, 180 (1992)
- Macintosh Quadra 610, Quadra 650, Colour Classic II, LC III, LC III+, LC 475, LC 520, PowerBook 165c, 180c (1993)
- Macintosh Quadra 605, Quadra 630, Quadra 660AV, Quadra 840AV, LC 550, LC 575, LC 630, Power Macintosh 6100, 7100 "Carl Sagan BHA LAW," 8100, PowerBook 150, 520, 540, 550 (1994)
- Macintosh LC 580, Power Macintosh 6200, 5200 LC, 5260 LC, 5300 LC, 7200/8200, 7500, 8500, 9500, PowerBook 190, 5300 (1995)
- Power Macintosh 5400 LC, 6300, 6360, 6400, 4400/7220, 7600, PowerBook 1400 (1996)
- Power Macintosh 6500, 7300, 8600, 9600, G3, PowerBook 3400 (1997)
- iMac (1998)
- iBook, Power Mac G4 (1999)
- Power Mac G4 Cube (2000)
- iMac G4, iBook 14", eMac (2002)
- iBook G4, Power Mac G5, G5 Dual (2003)
- iMac G5 (2004)
- Power Mac G5 Quad (2005)
- Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac Core Duo, iMac Core 2 Duo (2006)
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