Steve Jobs/IBM/Micrososft/P.Hirsch Time Line (PDF)
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Date Steve Jobs Events Peter Hirsch/IBM/Microsoft Events February-55 Steve Jobs born in Madison, Wisconsin Bill Gates born in Seattle, Washington August-55 Steve Jobs Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs June-57 Mona Simpson is born, Steve Jobs biological Sister Peter Hirsch enter University of Wisconsin September-60 Jobs family moved to Mountain View, Ca from San Francisco, Ca November-61 Peter Hirsch gets MS degree at University of Wisconsin. Peter Hirsch's son, David Hirsch, born in Madison Wisconsin June-65 Peter's daughter, Debra, born in Madison Wisconsin August-66 Peter Hirsch gets PhD from University of Wisconsin. Peter Hirsch starts work at IBM in Houston, Texas September-67 Steve Jobs enters Homestead High School, Sunnyvale, Ca September-70 Steve Jobs worked at HP and meets Steve Wozniak 1971 Developed Blue Box to mimic phone calls (with Steve Wozniack) 1972 Steve Jobs Senior at Homestead High School 1972 Steve Jobs meets Girlfriend Chris Ann Brennan 1972 Steve Jobs enters Reed College 1973 Bill Gates enters Harvard University 1974 Steve Jobs drops out of Reed College/Works at Atari Peter moves family to Cupertino, California. Works at IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center July-74 Steve Jobs travels to India 1975 Steve Jobs returns to Atari. Creates circuit board for Bill Gates and Paul Allen start Microsoft the game, Breakout (with Wozniak). Attends with Basic for the Altair 8080 and drop Homebrew club with Wozniak at Stamford out of Harvard. Peter's son, David Hirsch, University enters Homestead High School 1976 Apple I board and Keyboard delivered (with Steve Wozniack) 1977 Apple computer valued at $5,309 April-77 Apple II computer sold 2,700 units May-78 Lisa Brennan-Jobs born. Jobs first daughter Peter's daughter, Laura Hirsch, is born in Mountain View, Ca.. IBM 5100 is released. First IBM portable computer, uses APL that was developed at the IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center June-79 Steve Jobs visits Xerox Parc to see Windows Peter's son, David graduates from Technology. Lisa Computer started Homestead High School, starts Berkley December-80 Apple computer valued at $1.79 Billion IBM approaches Microsoft to write Basic for IBM PC January-81 210,000 Apple II Computers shipped IBM PC announced/ IBM PC Club started January-82 Steve Jobs starts Mac project Peter receives IBM PC 1 with MSDOS/GWBASIC, David writes Numgame for 4 year old sister, Laura, in Basic December-82 279,000 Apple II sold 240,000 IBM PCs sold January-83 Lisa Computer announced. First Apple computer Windows development announced with mouse and windows. John Scully becomes CEO of Apple from Pepsico December-83 420,000 Apples computers sold 1.3 Million IBM PCs sold January-84 Superbowl 1984 ad January-84 Macintosh Announced with windows IBM PCjr released May-85 Steve Jobs fired from Apple November-85 Windows Version 1 released. Peter starts work on AI/Expert Systems January-86 Steve Jobs mother who raised him dies of lung cancer January-86 Steve Finds his birth mother, Joanne Simpon, and Peter's daughter, Laura, asks why he sister, Mona Simpson does not work for a big computer company, like Apple May-86 Jobs Starts Pixar August-87 Microsoft agrees to make Office available for Apple Windows Version 2, IBM OS/2 released computers January-88 Next computer launched October-89 Meets Laurene Powell at Stamford Business School Microsoft Word 1 released January-90 Apple delivers Firewire on computers, Next Cube Windows Verion 3.0 computer released. Apple ports its operating system on the IBM PowerPC March-91 Steve Jobs marries Laurene Powell September-91 Reed Jobs is born June-92 Jony Ive joins apple as a designer, later designs IBM OS/2 Version 2.0, Microsoft Word 2 iMac, iPod and iPhone released, IBM ThinkPad released May-94 John Scully leaves Apple Microsoft Office 4.2, Word 6, Excel 5 and PowerPoint 6 August-95 Daughter Erin Jobs born to Lauren and Steve Jobs Peter retires from IBM and Joins EPRI November-95 Pixar/Disney release Toy Story Windows 95 and NT released June-97 Jobs is rehired as interim CEO (iCEO) at Apple, Next software brought into Apple July-97 Jobs asks board to resign and puts in a new board of directors for Apple July-97 Think Different ad released, Killed the Apple clones, reduced the number of products June-98 Daughter, Eve Jobs, born to Lauren and Steve Jobs May-98 iMac announced using Next technology, Mac OS X Windows 98 released November-99 Pixar and Disney release Toy Story 2 January-00 Steve Jobs becomes CEO of Apple Windows 2000 released January-01 iTunes announced Windows/XP released May-11 First Apple retail store opens in Tyson's Corner, VA October-01 iPod Announced October-03 Cancer in Steve Jobs Pancreas detected Launch of Microsoft Office July-04 Surgery to remove part of pancreas and tumor December-04 IBM sells PC Division to Lenovo June-05 Stanford University Commencement address June-05 Cook becomes COO of Apple June-06 Sells Pixar to Disney for $7.4 billion and Jobs becomes a Board member and largest stockholder of Disney December-06 Peter retires from EPRI. Windows/Vista Released. Peter buys Lenovo Laptop June-07 iPhone I Launched Windows/Vista, Office/2007 announced January-08 Cancer is spreading Office 2008 released June-08 Apple Mobile Me launched July-08 Apple App store started March-09 Steve Jobs has a Liver transplant Windows 7 launched, Peter converts his computers to Windows/7 January-10 iPad 1 Launched June-10 Reed Jobs graduates high school, iPhone 4 released Office 2011 Released February-11 iPad 2 Launched June-11 New Apple campus in Cupertino announced August-11 Steve Jobs resigns as CEO from Apple, but was still chairman of the board June-11 iPhone I Launched July-11 326 Apple Stores, 15% of Apple revenue, Revenue/Store=$34 million October-11 Steve Jobs passes away, iPhone 4s released 3 days Peter buys first Apple product, Apple later with iOS 5.0 iPhone 4s December-11 NYC Grand Central Apple Store Opens December-11 Apple Revenue $108 billion, Profit $26 billion, IBM Revenue $100 billion, Net Income Market Cap $370 billion, 60,400 employees $15 billion, Market Cap $214 billion, 425,000 employees Apple is bigger than IBM, bigger than Microsoft Revenue $68 billion, Net Microsoft+Lenovo Income $22 billion, Market Cap $218 billion, 90,000 employees Lenovo Revenue $21 billion, Profit $273 million, Market Cap $7 billion, 21,000 employees.