On December 12, 1980, Apple went public, floating 4.6 million shares of stock at $22 per share. The Apple IPO makes some rich, others mad.
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On December 1, 1981, the Apple III relaunch addressed the computer's biggest hardware faults as the company did damage control.
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On November 26, 1984, Bill Gates predicted that "the next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh."
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On November 16, 1982, Steve Jobs wrote to the head of McIntosh Labs, requesting to use the name "Macintosh" for Apple's new computer.
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On November 10, 1983, Microsoft told the world about a new product it planned to launch called Windows 1.0. Apple faced a brand-new rival!
On November 8, 1984, Apple kick-started its "Test Drive a Macintosh" campaign, offering customers the chance to borrow a Mac for 24 hours.
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Three years after leaving Apple, Steve Jobs prepares to launch the NeXT Computer, the machine he hopes will exact his revenge on Cupertino.
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On September 23, 1981, Cupertino laid out its "Apple Values." The Apple mission statement established a positive, productive corporate ethos.
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On September 20, 1989, Apple released the Macintosh Portable, the first battery-powered Mac you could take on the road. It was really heavy.
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On September 16 in 1985 and 1997, Steve Jobs left Apple and then -- years later -- returned to the company he co-founded.
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On September 13, 1983, Osborne Computer Corporation, one of Apple’s early rivals, declared bankruptcy. The Osborne 1 went down as a failure.
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On September 10, 1984, Apple shipped the Macintosh 512K, aka the "Fat Mac." It was the first upgrade to the original Macintosh 128K.
On September 3, 1982, Woz's first Us Festival, an $8 million music and technology event, kicked off in California.
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On September 2, 1985, the tech rumor mill reported that Steve Jobs was on the verge of setting up his own company to take on Apple.
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On August 12, 1981, IBM released the IBM Personal Computer. The first PC ignited a long-running tech rivalry between Apple and IBM.
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On August 11, 1987, Macintosh System Software 5's MultiFinder feature allowed true multitasking with two apps on a Mac's screen at once.
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On August 1, 1989, Apple introduced the Mac SE FDHD, which came with a versatile new SuperDrive capable of storing a massive 1.4MB of data.
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On July 30, 1979, Apple engineers began work on the Lisa, the first computer in company history to come with a graphical interface and mouse.
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On July 27, 1955, Joanna Hoffman, a marketing executive who will become Steve Jobs' first right-hand woman, was born in Poland.
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On July 25, 1989, Apple suffered a major setback in its lawsuit against Microsoft for allegedly stealing the Mac's graphical interface.
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