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On the back of each of these is stamped "83 3" I am assuming it was made in 1983, the year Jobs first became the CEO.

When was the last time you have seen one of these? Right... NEVER!

How cool would it be to have these setup in your dinning room? You can tell your friends.."Dude! Steve Jobs ate on this while he came up with the iPod idea!"

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Condition: Used with light scuffs/markings... no cracks or chips. Overall in great condition! Still shinny.

Colors: blue, green, orange, red, yellow,

Here is what happened at Apple Computers in the 1980's...

1983

January 19: The Lisa is introduced for $9998. The Apple IIe is introduced for $1395, later aguably becoming the most successful and most popular Apple computer. It will be produced for 10 and a half more years.
Spring: Chiat/Day rewrites "1984" for use in the now famous commercial advertising the Macintosh during Super Bowl XVIII.
May: Apple enters Fortune 500 at #411 after only five years of existence. It becomes the fastest growing company in history.
April 8: JObs convinces John Sculley, tehn president of PepsiCo, to become president and CEO of Apple.
May 16: The original ship date for the Macintosh at the NCC is missed.
September: Lisa released without bundled software for $6995.
October 7: The Macintosh Introduction Plan, a list of popular developers and celebrities that are invited to beta-test the Mac, is written.
November: The Lisa and Macintosh divisions are combined to form the Apple 32 SuperMicro Division.
December: The Apple III+ is introduced for $2995. It replaced the defective Apple III models.
December 15: Chiat/Day airs "1984" for the first time. It was aired in the sign-off slot of KMVT Channel 11, at 1:00 AM (coincidentally, on my third birthday). This is customary for the company, so it can be elligible for the advertising awards issued that year.
Late 1983: IBM sells 1 million IBM PCs, and introduces the big flop IBM PC/Jr.
Bill Gates first announces Windows, and how the GUI will revolutionize the PC. Microsoft will not release it for 4 more years.

1984

January 17: The 30-second version of "1984" appears in theater previews across the country. It was so admired, it was often replayed for free.
January 22: Apple airs "1984" during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII to a crowd of
January 24: $2495 Macintosh and $3495 Lisa 2 introduced.
April 24: Apple IIc introduced at the Apple Forever Conference in San Diego. The Apple III+ is finally discontinued.
September: Apple IIc wins Industrial Design Excellence Award.
Microsoft announces and released Word, Multiplan, File, Chart, BASIC, and other programs.

1985

January: Apple renames the Lisa 2/10 the Macintosh XL, and discontinues all other Lisa configurations.
January 20: "Lemmings" commercial bombs at Super Bowl XIX.
March: Apple IIe enchanced introduced.
April 29: Macintosh XL discontinued.
May 15: The last Lisa/Mac XL is produced at a Carrollton, Texas factory. Sun Remarketing buys thousands of the last Lisas, and is able to sell most of them at fair prices after upgrading them with current Macintosh technology.
May 24: Jobs tries to force Sculley out of Apple by forming a coup against him.
May 31: Jobs is stripped of all his duties. He job description becomes "global thinker", and his remote office dubbed "Siberia".
July 29: Gates sends Scully a memo suggesting licensing of the Mac OS and prospective companies who might create Mac clones.
September: Apple sells 500,000 Macintosh models.
September 12: Jobs announces intent to create new company with other "lower-level" employees.
September 17: Jobs distributes his resignation letter to Apple and several other news media figures.
September 23: Apples files suit against Jobs. Apple claims Jobs knows sensitive technology secrets that he might use in his new company.
November 22: Sculley signs agreement to let Bill Gates use Mac technology in Windows, if Microsoft continues to produce products for the Mac.
Microsoft releases Excel for Macintosh.

1986

January: Apple settles law suit against Jobs out of court. Jobs agrees not to hire any Apple employees for 6 months, and to always make computers that are more powerful than anything Apple has to offer...yes, you read right.
February: Jobs finishes selling all but one of his 6.5 million shares of stock to begin NeXT, Inc.
June: Paul Rand, responsible for the IBM logo, designs the NeXT logo and suggests the use of the small "e".
September: The Apple IIGS is introduced for $999.
Aldus introduces the TIFF format, later to become the desktop publishing standard. Compaq introduces the first Intel 386 PC, replacing IBM as the PC technology leader.

1987

January: Apple renames the Lisa 2/10 the Macintosh XL, and discontinues all other Lisa configurations.
January 3: Apple celebrates its tenth birthday. A coffee table book, So Far, later chronicles the experiences of the last ten years.
Early in the year: Ross Perot invests $20 million in NeXT, Inc.
Spring: Projected release of first NeXT machine. The NeXT Computer would be a year and a half late.
March 17: Apple declares 6 different Mac Pluses the 1 milionth Mac. Raskin is presented with one of them, which he still uses.
August 11: Microsoft releases the first version of its GUI OS, Windows 1.01. It's arcane user interface is almost unsuable, a large disapointment.
The IIe extended is introduced. Raskin releases the Canon Cat, a computer that was much more like his PITS proposal several years back. Though it fails to become popular due to lack of production by Canon, it wins several design awards.

1988

January: Microsoft releases the second version of Windows, version 2.03. Seeing as 1.01 was almost unusable, many improvements (much of which was taken from the Mac) were made. Such include Mac-like icons, and overlapping instead of tiling windows. Even so, Windows was still not up to par to the first Alto OS, written 15 years before.
September: The Apple IIc+, the last in the Apple II line, is introduced. GS/OS System 1, a Mac-like GUI for the IIGS, is introduced.
October 12: the NeXT Computer is released for $6500. It included a 25 MHz '30 processor, 8 MB RAM, 250 MB optical disk drive, math co-processor, digital processor for real time sound, faxmodem, and a 17" monitor. Apple's newest Mac was half as fast, with no peripherals for $1000 more.

1989

February: Apple Corps., the Beatle's record company, files a trademark infringement suit against Apple.
September: Apple rents space at the Logan landfill and trashes the remaining 2,700 Lisa models.
September 18: The NeXTstep OS is introduced. It will eventually be bought by Apple and used in its next generation OS, Rhapsody.