Apple Computer, Inc.


Apple Computer, Inc.

(company)Manufacturers of the Macintosh range of personal computers as well as the earlier Apple I, Apple II andLisa. Founded on 1 April 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Apples were among the first microcomputers. They originallyused the 6502 processor and are still being made (August1994), now using the 65816. The Apple II line, whichincludes the Apple I, is the longest existing line ofmicrocomputers.

Steve Jobs left Apple (involuntarily) and started NeXT andlater returned when Apple bought NeXT in late 1997(?).

Quarterly sales $2150M, profits $138M (Aug 1994).http://apple.com/.