Timeline of Apple Inc. products

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This timeline of Apple Inc. products is a list of all stand-alone Apple II, Macintosh, and other computers, as well as computer peripherals, expansion cards, software, ancillary products, and consumer electronics sold by Apple Inc. in order of introduction date.

Contents

• 1 Timeline of Apple Inc. products
• 2 Text timeline
  • 2.1 1970s
  • 2.2 1980s
  • 2.3 1990s
  • 2.4 2000s
  • 2.5 2010s
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Timeline of Apple Inc. products

See also: Timeline of Apple Inc. products, Timeline of Apple II family, and Timeline of Macintosh models

Products on this timeline indicate introduction dates only and not necessarily discontinued dates, as new products begin on a contiguous product line.

Text timeline

Products are shaded using their corresponding graphical timeline color schemes (unshaded) from all others.

1970s

See also: Timeline of Apple II Family

Apple I

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1976	July 1	Apple I	Apple I	September 1, 1976

Apple II

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1977	April 1	Apple II	Apple II	June 1, 1979

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1978	June 1	Disk II	Drives	May 1, 1984

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1979	June 1	Apple II Plus	Apple II	December 1, 1982
		Apple II EuroPlus	Apple II	December 1, 1982
		Apple II J-Plus	Apple II	December 1, 1982
		Bell & Howell	Apple II	December 1, 1982
		Bell & Howell Disk II	Drives	December 1, 1982
		Apple SilenType	Printers	October 1, 1982
		Apple Writer 1.0	Software	January 1, 1992

1980s

Apple III

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1980	September 1	Apple III	Apple III	December 1, 1981
		Modem IIB (Novation CAT)	Modems
		Printer IIA (Centronics 779)	Printers
		Monitor III	Displays
		Monitor II (various third party)	Displays
		Disk III	Drives	May 1, 1984

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1981	September 1	Apple ProFile	Drives
	December 1	Apple III Revised[1]	Apple III	December 1, 1983

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1982	October 1	Apple Dot Matrix Printer	Printers	December 1, 1983
		Apple Letter Quality Printer	Printers	December 1, 1983

Apple Lisa

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1983	January 1	Apple IIe	Apple II	March 1, 1985
		Apple Lisa[2]	68000	January 1, 1984
	December 1	Apple III Plus	Apple III	April 24, 1984
		Apple ImageWriter	Printers	December 1, 1985

See also: Timeline of Macintosh models

Macintosh 128K

Apple //c

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1984	January 1	Apple Lisa 2	68000	January 1, 1985
	January 24	Macintosh (128K)	Compact	September 10, 1984
		Macintosh External Disk Drive (400K)	Drives	January 1, 1986
		Apple Modem 300	Modems
		Apple Modem 1200	Modems
		MacWrite 1.0	Software
		MacPaint 1.0	Software
	April 1	Apple IIc	Apple II	September 1, 1986
		Apple Scribe Printer	Printers	December 1, 1985
		Apple Mouse IIc	Apple Mouse	December 1, 1985
		Disk IIc	Drives
	May 1	Apple DuoDisk 5.25	Drives
	June	Apple Color Plotter	Printers
		Apple ImageWriter Wide Carriage	Printers
	September 10	Macintosh 512K	Compact	April 14, 1986
		Macintosh 128K (revised)	Compact	October 1, 1985
	December	AppleColor 100	Displays

Macintosh Plus

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1985	January 1	Macintosh XL	68000	April 1, 1985
		Apple LaserWriter	Printers	December 1, 1985
		Apple LocalTalk Connector	Networking
	March 1	Apple IIe Enhanced	Apple II	January 1, 1987
	April 1	Apple Personal Modem	Modems
		Apple ImageWriter II	Printers	1996
	June	Apple UniDisk 5.25	Drives	September 1, 1986
	September 1	Macintosh Hard Disk 20	Drives
		Apple UniDisk 3.5	Drives	January 1, 1987
		Apple ColorMonitor IIe	Displays
		Apple ColorMonitor IIc	Displays

Apple IIGS

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1986	January 16	Macintosh Plus	Compact	October 15, 1990
		Macintosh 800K External Drive	Drives
		Apple LaserWriter Plus	Printers
	April 14	Macintosh 512Ke	Compact	October 1, 1987
	September 1	Apple IIGS	Apple II	December 1, 1992
		Apple IIc Memory Expansion	Apple II	September 1, 1988
		Apple Hard Disk 20SC	Drives
		Apple 3.5" Drive	Drives
		Apple 5.25" Drive	Drives
		AppleColor RGB Monitor	Displays
		Apple Monochrome Monitor	Displays
		AppleColor Composite Monitor	Displays

Macintosh II

AppleFax Modem

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1987	January 1	Macintosh Plus (Platinum)	Compact	October 15, 1990
		Apple IIe Platinum	Apple II	November 1, 1993
		AppleShare Server 1.0	Software
	March 2	Macintosh SE	Compact	August 1, 1989
		Macintosh II	Mac II	January 15, 1990
		AppleColor Hi-Resolution RGB Monitor	Displays	December 1992
	August	ImageWriter LQ	Printers	December 1990
		AppleFax Modem	Modems
		Apple PC 5.25" Drive	Drives
		Apple Tape Backup 40SC	Drives

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1988	January 1	Apple LaserWriter family	Printers
	March	AppleCD SC	Drives
	August	Apple Scanner	Scanner
	September 1	Apple IIc Plus	Apple II	September 1, 1990
	September 19	Macintosh IIx	Mac II	October 15, 1990

Macintosh Portable

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1989	January 19	Macintosh SE/30	Compact	October 21, 1991
	March 7	Macintosh IIcx	Mac II	March 11, 1991
		Apple Two Page Monochrome Monitor	Displays
		Apple Macintosh Portrait Display	Displays
		Apple Hi-Resolution Monochrome Display	Displays
	July	Apple Modem 2400	Modems	December 1992
	August 1	Macintosh SE FDHD	Compact	October 15, 1990
		Apple FDHD SuperDrive	Drives
	September 20	Macintosh IIci	Mac II	February 20, 1993
		Macintosh Portable	Portable	February 11, 1991
	October 1	Apple IIGS (1 MB, ROM 3)[3]	Apple II	December 1, 1992

1990s

Macintosh LC

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1990	March 19	Macintosh IIfx	Mac II	April 15, 1992
	October 15	Macintosh LC	LC	March 23, 1992
		Macintosh Classic	Compact	September 14, 1992
		Macintosh IIsi	Mac II	March 15, 1993

Macintosh Classic II

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1991	February 11	Macintosh Portable (backlit screen)	Portable	October 21, 1991
	March 1	Apple IIe Card (requires Macintosh LC)	Apple II	May 1, 1995
	October 21	Macintosh Classic II	Compact	September 13, 1993
		Quadra 700	Quadra	March 15, 1993
		Quadra 900	Quadra	May 18, 1992
		PowerBook 100	PowerBook	August 3, 1992
		PowerBook 140	PowerBook	August 3, 1992
		PowerBook 170	PowerBook	Octo