Apple Timeline, 1976-80

<1981-1985>

Year	Apple	Other
1976	Steve Wozniak works for Hewlett-Packard Steve Jobs works for Atari. 04.01: Apple Computer incorporates. Apple I introduced for $666.66.	Shugart introduces 5.25" floppy. BYTE magazine begins. Micro-soft is one year old.
1977	Apple moves out of Steve Jobs' garage. Apple II introduced with 4 KB RAM in April for $1,298. Apple logo designed.	TRS-80 introduced by Tandy. Commodore PET introduced. CP/M marketed by Digital Research.
1978	Apple moves into new corporate headquarters. Apple introduces 5.25" floppy drive. Apple licenses BASIC from Microsoft. Microsoft SoftCard lets Apple II use CP/M.	Intel releases 16-bit 8086 CPU.
1979	Apple II Plus introduced with 48 KB RAM for $1,195. Apple targets education market	VisiCalc spreadsheet makes personal computer (especially Apple II) a business tool.
1980	May: Apple III introduced. Apple goes public with 4.6 million shares, largest offering since Ford Motor in 1956. Apple has over 1,000 employees.	One million personal computers in US Novell announces networking software.

<1981-1985>

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