myke eric scott olson: Papers

"The History of Apple Computer"
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The next year, Virex(25), SAM(26) , Vaccine, and Disinfectant(27) made their debut to combat the virus problem. Hewlett-Packard shipped the DeskWriter, a low cost but high-quality printer. System 7 was released to developers and Claris, the new company spun off from the software division of Apple, released MacWrite II and MacDraw II. Finally, the Mac Portable is released and quickly dropped due to its excessive weight, lack of portability, and high price.

1990 was a great year for Apple with their net revenue up to $5.56 billion. They introduced their "pizza-box" line(28): the Mac IIsi and LC with new low prices. The Classic debuts, raising Apple's market share by 5.8% and the "wicked-fast" (MacUser) Mac IIfx. Again, as Apple Computer became larger, they reorganized by moving Michael Spindler into the president's office and Sculley into Research and Development.

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