Apple Computer, Inc.
<company> Manufacturers of the
Macintosh range of personal computers as well as the earlier Apple I,
Apple II and
Lisa.
Founded on 1 April 1976 by
Steve Jobs and
Steve Wozniak.
Apples were among the first microcomputers.
They originally used the
6502 processor and are still being made (August 1994), now using the
65816.
The
Apple II line, which includes the Apple I, is the longest existing line of microcomputers.
Steve Jobs left Apple (involuntarily) and started NeXT and later returned when Apple bought NeXT in late 1997(?).
Quarterly sales $2150M, profits $138M (Aug 1994). Home (http://www.apple.com/).
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