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Steve Jobs Discovers the Macintosh Project

Steve Jobs Discovers the Macintosh Project

| October 30, 2008 | 0 Comments

With the initial public offering of Apple Computers in December 1980, Steve Jobs became a multimillionaire – however, he possessed neither enough stock to lead Apple Computers alone nor to determine his own position within Apple. By the beginning of 1981, he actually found himself to be without management responsibility over any specific project. To [...]

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Apple Macintosh

Apple Macintosh

| May 25, 2008 | 2 Comments

Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a brand name which covers several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The Macintosh 128K was released on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI) rather than a command line interface. [...]

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Apple Lisa

Apple Lisa

| October 12, 2007 | 1 Comment

The Apple Lisa was a personal computer designed at Apple Computer, Inc. during the early 1980s. The Lisa project was started at Apple in 1978 and evolved into a project to design a powerful personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) that would be targeted toward business customers. In September 1980, Steve Jobs was [...]

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