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 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 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
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 the game, Breakout (with Wozniak). Attends Homebrew club with Wozniak at Stamford University 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 Bill Gates and Paul Allen start Microsoft with Basic for the Altair 8080 and drop out of Harvard. Peter's son, David Hirsch, enters Homestead High School 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 Technology. Lisa Computer started Peter's son, David graduates from 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 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 Microsoft Word 1 released 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 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 January-01 itunes announced May-11 First Apple retail store opens in Tyson's Corner, VA October-01 ipod Announced October-03 Cancer in Steve Jobs Pancreas detected July-04 Surgery to remove part of pancreas and tumor December-04 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 June-07 iphone I Launched January-08 Cancer is spreading June-08 Apple Mobile Me launched July-08 Apple App store started March-09 Steve Jobs has a Liver transplant January-10 ipad 1 Launched Windows 2000 released Windows/XP released Launch of Microsoft Office IBM sells PC Division to Lenovo Peter retires from EPRI. Windows/Vista Released. Peter buys Lenovo Laptop 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 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 Office 2011 Released 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