In the early 1970’s two friends from high school, Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs, changed the world for the better. Jobs prior to working for Apple, worked for Atari, and Wozniak worked for Hewlett-Packard. Both men dropped out of college in hopes of making a fortune (in then) a small computer company.
Apple Computer Inc. started with the introduction of the Apple I computer on April 1, 1976. Even thought the computer wasn’t a big success, it made a good profit. A year after, the Apple II debuted at a local computer show. It was the first personal computer to come in a plastic case and include color graphics. Orders kept coming in for the new machine.
With the increase in orders and company size, Apple had a several thousand employees, and was beginning to sell computers very well. In 1980 with the introduction of the Apple III, Apple decided to hire new managers in order to find new funding for newer technology, to make Apple a “real company”.
By 1981 the competition......
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