1979


 * February: Eurapple is acquired by Apple Computer from Andre Sousan to become its first international sales division.
 * February: Burrell Smith joins Apple Computer as employee #282.
 * May: The Apple II is discontinued.
 * June: The Apple II plus is released.
 * August 6: Andy Hertzfeld joins Apple Computer as employee #435.
 * Jef Raskin starts a project at Apple Computer for a computer somewhat like the Apple Lisa but in a smaller form factor and working with a small amount of memory, therefore appropriate to have a price less than half of that of the Apple Lisa, codenamed "Macintosh".