Date
February-55
August-55
June-57
Steve Jobs Events
Steve Jobs born in Madison, Wisconsin
Steve Jobs Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs
Mona Simpson is born, Steve Jobs biological Sister
September-60 Jobs family moved to Mountain View, Ca from San
Francisco, Ca
November-61
June-65
August-66
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
Peter Hirsch/IBM/Microsoft Events
Bill Gates born in Seattle, Washington
Peter Hirsch enter University of
Wisconsin
Peter Hirsch gets MS degree at
University of Wisconsin. Peter Hirsch's
son, David Hirsch, born in Madison
Wisconsin
Peter's daughter, Debra, born in
Madison Wisconsin
Peter Hirsch gets PhD from University of
Wisconsin. Peter Hirsch starts work at
IBM in Houston, Texas
Bill Gates enters Harvard University
1973
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
Peter's daughter, Laura Hirsch, is born in
May-78 Lisa Brennan-Jobs born. Jobs first daughter
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
Technology. Lisa Computer started
December-80 Apple computer valued at $1.79 Billion
Peter's son, David graduates from
Homestead High School, starts Berkley
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
240,000 IBM PCs sold
Windows development announced
December-82 279,000 Apple II sold
January-83 Lisa Computer announced. First Apple computer
with mouse and windows. John Scully becomes CEO
of Apple from Pepsico
1.3 Million IBM PCs sold
December-83 420,000 Apples computers sold
January-84 Superbowl 1984 ad
IBM PCjr released
January-84 Macintosh Announced with windows
May-85 Steve Jobs fired from Apple
Windows Version 1 released. Peter
November-85
starts work on AI/Expert Systems
January-86 Steve Jobs mother who raised him dies of lung
cancer
Peter's daughter, Laura, asks why he
January-86 Steve Finds his birth mother, Joanne Simpon, and
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
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
iMac, iPod and iPhone
May-94 John Scully leaves Apple
August-95 Daughter Erin Jobs born to Lauren and Steve Jobs
Windows Verion 3.0
IBM OS/2 Version 2.0, Microsoft Word 2
released, IBM ThinkPad released
Microsoft Office 4.2, Word 6, Excel 5 and
PowerPoint 6
Peter retires from IBM and Joins EPRI
Windows 95 and NT released
November-95 Pixar/Disney release Toy Story
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
January-00
January-01
May-11
Pixar and Disney release Toy Story 2
Steve Jobs becomes CEO of Apple
iTunes announced
First Apple retail store opens in Tyson's Corner, VA
Windows 2000 released
Windows/XP released
October-01
October-03
July-04
December-04
June-05
June-05
June-06
iPod Announced
Cancer in Steve Jobs Pancreas detected
Surgery to remove part of pancreas and tumor
Launch of Microsoft Office
IBM sells PC Division to Lenovo
Stanford University Commencement address
Cook becomes COO of Apple
Sells Pixar to Disney for $7.4 billion and Jobs
becomes a Board member and largest stockholder
of Disney
Peter retires from EPRI. Windows/Vista
Released. Peter buys Lenovo Laptop
December-06
June-07 iPhone I Launched
January-08
June-08
July-08
March-09
Cancer is spreading
Apple Mobile Me launched
Apple App store started
Steve Jobs has a Liver transplant
January-10 iPad 1 Launched
Windows/Vista, Office/2007 announced
Office 2008 released
Windows 7 launched, Peter converts his
computers to Windows/7
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
later with iOS 5.0
December-11 NYC Grand Central Apple Store Opens
December-11 Apple Revenue $108 billion, Profit $26 billion,
Market Cap $370 billion, 60,400 employees
Apple is bigger than IBM, bigger than
Microsoft+Lenovo
Peter buys first Apple product, Apple
iPhone 4s
IBM Revenue $100 billion, Net Income
$15 billion, Market Cap $214 billion,
425,000 employees
Microsoft Revenue $68 billion, Net
Income $22 billion, Market Cap $218
billion, 90,000 employees
Lenovo Revenue $21 billion, Profit $273
million, Market Cap $7 billion, 21,000
employees