The following Apple-related events occurred in 1987:
January 1987[]
- January 3: Apple Computer celebrates its tenth anniversary by issuing staff a coffee table book, So Far: The First Ten Years of a Vision.
February 1987[]
- February 19: The Apple.com domain address is registered by Apple Computer.
March 1987[]
- March 2: The Macintosh SE and II are announced at the 1987 AppleWorld Conference in Los Angeles, California. System 4.1 and the Apple Universal Monitor Stand are also released.
April 1987[]
- April: The 1987 Apple Developers Conference is held in Santa Clara, California.
- April: The Macintosh II ships; it is the first system from Apple Computer to use a Motorola 68020 processor.
May 1987[]
June 1987[]
- June 3: RasterOps, an early Macintosh video card developer, is established in California.
- June 11: The first NuBus standard is approved as IEEE 1196-1987.
- June 16: Apple Computer stock (AAPL) is split for the first time, 2-for-1.
July 1987[]
August 1987[]
September 1987[]
- September 1: The Macintosh 512Ke is discontinued.
- September 30: Apple Expo 1987 commences in Paris, France.
October 1987[]
- October 15: The "dogcow" is verbally referenced for the first time in Apple Computer's developer technical support department.
November 1987[]
December 1987[]
- December 9: Windows 2.03 is released by Microsoft for PCs.
See also[]
External links[]
- 1987: Expansion Slots, Internal Hard Drives, and Color by Daniel Knight at Low End Mac (1987-12-31)