C-Apple Genealogy

This table shows in an abbreviated format the approximate dates of product release and product discontinuation during the Apple II era. Generally, the left half of the table deals with the 6502/65816 Apple II series of computers (and the closely related Apple III), and the right half deals with the 680×0 Lisa and Macintosh series, and events outside of the Apple part of the personal computing universe.

Each year is divided up into four lines in this table; so each year is divided up into quarters. Events shown as happening in the first quarter of a year refer to Jan-Mar, the second quarter Apr-Jun, and so on. For a product introduction, the top of the colored box where the name appears represents the date it was released.

In the case of several revisions in the same product line, these models are designated in the same vertical box, but with a change in color.

I want to thank Hisham Muhammad, and his Portuguese-language web site, Lode’s Land – Apple ][ Brasil for permission to use his excellent idea for creation of an HTML-based, colored timeline to display this geneology data. This is much better than the text-only version that I had displayed here previously!

	Models			Emulators	OtherApples	Context
1975						Altair 8800, Homebrew	1975
						Scelbi-8B, Micro-Soft
						Altair BASIC, 6502
						IMSAI 8080
1976						Shugart 5.25 floppy drive	1976
	Apple-1					Apple Computer Co.
						Z-80, Sol, PC’76
						Electric Pencil
1977						Apple Computer, Inc.	1977
		Apple ][				Commodore PET
						TRS-80, Heathkit H-8
						CP/M, Applesoft I
1978						Epson MX-80, Atari 400	1978
						Atari 800, Intel 8086
						Exidy Sorceror, TI-99/4
						.
1979						Intel 8088, Compuserve	1979
		Apple ][ Plus
						.
						VisiCalc
1980						Sinclair ZX80, WordPerfect	1980
						Vulcan (dBase II), VIC-20
			Apple ///			Micromodem 100, Zork
						CompuServe, The Source
1981						Xerox Star	1981
						Osborne 1, Epson HX-20
						IBM PC, Smartmodem
						Intellivision
1982						I80286, Compaq Portable	1982
						Commodore 64, Lotus
						Franklin Ace 100
						TRS-80 Model 16
1983		Apple //e			Lisa	Tandy 2000, IBM PC-XT	1983
						Microsoft Word, IBM PCjr
						Adam, Atari 1200XL
			Apple /// Plus			TRS-80 Model 100, Word
1984					Macintosh	HP LaserJet	1984
	Apple //c				Lisa 2	Lotus Symphony
					Mac 512K	PC-AT, Motorola 68020
						.
1985		Enhanced //e			Mac XL	Amiga 1000, LaserWriter	1985
						PageMaker, Windows 1.0
						Jobs resigns, GEnie
	3.5 ROM //c
1986					Mac Plus	Atari 520ST, Laser 128	1986
						Microsoft Works/Mac
	Mem Exp //c		Apple IIGS			Intel 386, Motorola 68030
						.
1987		Platinum //e			Mac SE	Amiga 2000, Amiga 500	1987
					Mac II	IBM PS/2, OS/2
			IIGS ROM 01			HyperCard, Excel
						.
1988	Rev Mem Exp			Apple2Em		Intel 386SX	1988
						ARPANET Worm
	Apple //c Plus				Mac IIx
						NeXT
1989						Intel 486, X Windows	1989
						Adobe Type Manager
			IIGS ROM 03		Mac IIci
						.
1990						IBM PS/1, Amiga 3000	1990
						Windows 3.0
					Mac Classic	Motorola 68040
					Mac LC
1991						Linux	1991
	Apple //e
	Card for				Powerbook
	Mac LC				Quadra
1992						Windows 3.1	1992
						.
					Performa
						.
1993						Pentium	1993
						PowerPC 601
					Newton
						PowerPC 603
1994				AppleWin	PowerMac	Mac System 7.1	1994
						PowerPC 603, 604
						Mac System 7.5
						.
1995				ApplePC	Newton 120	Microsoft “Bob”	1995
						Mac Clones
						Windows 95
						Pentium Pro
1996							1996
						.
						.
						.
1997							1997
						Pentium MMX
						Pentium II
					G3 Mac
1998						Newton discontinued	1998
						Windows 98
					iMac	PowerPC G3
						.
1999						Pentium III	1999
						“Y2K” fears
					iBook
					G4 Mac