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Apple Computer reports its first quarterly loss.
Microsoft and IBM sign a joint-development agreement to work together on future operating
systems and environments.
Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs resigns from Apple Computer.
Steve Jobs and five senior managers of Apple Computer Inc. Found NeXT Incorporated.
Microsoft ships Microsoft Windows 1.0, for US$100. It is delivered two years after the initial
announcement of the product
Broderbund releases Karateka for the Commodore 64.
Steve Jobs sells 4 million shares of Apple Computer, netting about US$70.5 million. If he had
held them to the fall of 1987, they would have brought US$481 million.
U.S. Robotics introduces the Courier 2400 modem.
Intel introduces the 80287 math coprocessor.
Microsoft purchases all rights to DOS from Seattle Computer Products for US$925,000.
Sun Microsystems begins work on its SPARC processor.
Microsoft releases QuickBASIC 1.0.
1986