Apple+Computers

Karryn Kriner

= = =Events of Apple= The First Apple computer was founded in 1976 by a man named Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, and they marketed the apple 1. The next year 1977 the Apple two computer began the computer revolution because it offered speed and computable power at an affordable price =The APPLE 2= The Apple 2 became more affordable and developed the same features the Macintosh did, but the apple was thousands of dollars cheaper, making it more affordable for the people at home .Even though the apple went through some struggles during the beginning of the production, the company came through and pulled together and the Apple 2 made Apple the leading company in the 1980's.  =The Apple 3= During the 1980's the Apple industry released the Apple 3, the apple kept on improving the computer by adding more to its advancement, which included a new operating system, a built in disk controller, and four peripheral slots. The Apple 3 was priced at $3,495 it nearly doubled in price compared to the Apple 1 and the Apple 2. =Establishing The Business= In 1981, the Apple industry established offices in France and England.This allowed the Apple computer's to have more then one language and 40 new products were released that year, the most notable one was the Apple language card. In 1982, Apple became the first PC company to to reach sales of $1 billion. In 1983, Apple introduced the printer and other products including: word processing,spreadsheet, and database software. =Networks= In 1986, Apple became more of an international development and spread to 80 countries. In 1989, Apple released several new networking and communication products in order to enhance the communication capabilities of the machine. The sales climbed to $5.28 billion, but in response to compition the company reduced the prices in 1990 and offered more then the competing companies did.