1975

• Q1: Future Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs enlists his friend Steve Wozniak to work on the design of Breakout at Atari.
• March 5: Future Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak attends the first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club, becoming inspired to start work on what would become the Apple-1 kit computer.
• April 4: Micro-Soft is co-founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in New Mexico.
• June 29: Wozniak begins testing a self-built prototype that would later become the Apple-1.
• December 8: Future Apple I dealer Paul Terrell opens the Byte Shop computer store in Mountain View, California.