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The Antikythera Mechanism is Discovered by Valerios Stais

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known mechanical computer) designed to calculate... Read more

Prediction on Computer and Internet

Apple II is Released

A lot of features of the Apple II went in because I had designed Breakout for Atari. I had designed it in hardware. I wanted to write it in... Read more

Apple Releases Groundbreaking MacPaint with Macintosh

MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal... Read more

Apple Macintosh Introduced

Steve Jobs began working on the Apple Lisa in 1978 but in 1982 he was pushed from the Lisa team due to infighting, and took over Jef Raskin's... Read more

Steve Jobs Quits Apple Following His Removal from Managerial Duties by Apple's Board

In 1985, a power struggle developed between Jobs and CEO John Sculley, who had been hired two years prior. Apple's board of directors sided with... Read more

Microsoft Releases Windows Version 1.0

On November 20, 1985, two years after the initial announcement, Windows ships Windows 1.0. Now, rather than typing MS‑DOS commands, you just move a... Read more

Steve Wozniak Ends Full-time Employment at Apple

The Wall Street Journal once printed that I was leaving Apple because I was disgusted, even though I'd told the reporter that was not the case. If... Read more

Release of the Macintosh Portable, Apple's Unsuccessful First Attempt at a Portable Computer

The Macintosh Portable was Apple Computer's first attempt at making a battery-powered portable Macintosh personal computer that held the power of a... Read more

Apple Releases PowerBook Models, first Laptop Computers

In October 1991 Apple released the first three PowerBooks: the low-end PowerBook 100, the more powerful PowerBook 140, and the high end PowerBook... Read more

Apple Introduces Newton MessagePad, the first PDA

The MessagePad was the first series of personal digital assistant devices developed by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) for the Newton platform in... Read more

Apple Introduces Power Macintosh 6100, Their First Computer to Use PowerPC Processor

The Power Macintosh 6100 was Apple Computer's first computer to use the new PowerPC RISC type processor created by IBM and Motorola. It came in the... Read more

Apple Releases PowerBook 500

The PowerBook 500 series (codenamed Blackbird) was a range of Apple Macintosh PowerBook portable computers first introduced by Apple Computer with... Read more

Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation is Decided in Favor of Microsoft

Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, 35 F.3d 1435 (9th Cir. 1994) was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer, Inc. (now... Read more

Apple Releases PowerBook 5300 Series, First to Feature Hot Swapping

The PowerBook 5300 was Apple's first PowerBook based on a PowerPC CPU. Due to problems with the original (flaming) LithIon battery (which was... Read more

Apple Bandai Pippin Gaming System Released

The Pippin, known in Japan as Pippin @ (ピピンアットマーク, Pipin Attomāku), was a multimedia platform designed by Apple Inc. (then Apple Computer Inc.) and... Read more

Steve Jobs Rejoins Apple as Interim CEO

Jobs was initially reluctant to take a role at Apple. His other company, Pixar, had just released its first movie, Toy Story, to great acclaim. But... Read more

Power Macintosh G3 Released

Although there were some initial teething pains - and some backlash from Mac professionals about putting an IDE drive in a Power Mac - the G3... Read more

Apple Introduces the PowerBook G3

The first Macintosh PowerBook G3, codenamed "Kanga" was introduced in November 1997. At the time of its introduction, the PowerBook G3 was... Read more

Apple Releases the iMac G3

Aesthetically, the iMac was dramatically different from any other mainstream computer ever released. It was made of translucent "Bondi... Read more

Apple Releases Power Mac G4

The original Apple Power Mac G4, code name "Yikes!", was introduced at the Seybold conference in San Francisco on August 31, 1999, with 400 MHz,... Read more

Y2K Does Not Result in the End of the World

Y2K was a notable computer bug resulting from the practice in early computer program design of representing the year with two digits. This time... Read more

Apple Releases the Power Mac G4 Cube

Stunningly compact, the Power Mac (not Macintosh) G4 Cube came as a surprise, despite numerable contradictory rumors. Just 7.7" square and a bit... Read more

Steve Jobs Announces PowerBook G4, along with the New iTunes Music Player Application

The first generations of the PowerBook G4 were announced at Steve Jobs' keynote at MacWorld Expo in January 2001. They featured a PowerPC G4... Read more

Apple Launches OS X v10.0, Codenamed "Cheetah"

Mac OS X version 10.0, code named “Cheetah”, is the first major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server operating system. Mac OS X v10.0... Read more