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The Seed of Apple.

Every company has a beginning. Whether it was of betrayal, trust, hope, and many other feelings. Apple's beginning was destiny.

On April 1, 1976 Apple was born. The two main "employees" were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, however, there is one other man who was involved, his name is Ronald Wayne.

The three men had developed the Apple I (Apple One).

Steve Wozniak had hand-built it, Ronald Wayne had written the manual, and the partnership agreement, and also drew, not designed, the first Apple logo. Steve Jobs secured the parts and managed financial documents.

The Apple I was priced at $666.66.

Ronald Wayne left after selling his share to Jobs and Wozniak for $800. His share is estimated to be worth $25.5 billion today.

On January 3, 1977 the Apple II was released. It was built so that the first spreadsheet program could be released to the public. The Apple III was released later to compete with IBM and Microsoft. This is where the roots of the Mac vs PC war are.

Steve Jobs worked on the Apple Lisa in 1978, but he was removed from the team because of fighting between employees. He ended up becoming the head of another computer project, the Macintosh. It was a race to the finish, whichever group finished the computer first would "save" Apple.

Unfortunately the Lisa won, however it boarded the fail boat. Why? Because it was really expensive and had almost no software.

In 1984, Macintosh was released, by a famous commercial, "1984". Which was based of the book. The commercial had similar themes to the book as well. The date was January 22, 1984.

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