- Motorola introduces 68040 processor.[7]
- IBM introduces the PS/1.[7]
- Commodore introduces the Amiga 3000 ($3300).[7]
- ARPANET, the first data network, is shut down.[149]
1990 March
Apple II High Speed SCSI card introduced.[9]
Macintosh IIfx introduced.[9]
Mac System 6.0.5 released, with further improvements and support for the new Mac IIfx.[137]
1990 May
Vitesse releases the Quickie hand scanner for the Apple IIe and IIGS.
Microsoft Windows 3.0 released.[134]
1990 June
BASIC.SYSTEM v1.4.1
1990 July
Second A2-Central Developer's Conference (KansasFest).
1990 August
ProDOS 8 v1.9
Apple buys back Claris Corporation as a wholly-owned subsidiary.[75]
1990 October
Macintosh Classic, Macintosh LC, and Macintosh IIsi introduced. The Mac Classic replaces the Mac Plus and Mac SE.[76]
1990 November
The Apple IIGS Buyer's Guide ceases publication.[77]
1990 December
Apple IIGS System Software v5.0.3. It fixes some bugs and speeds up the ImageWriter driver. However, there were problems with this driver under low memory situations, so it was not widely distributed.[78]
Apple IIc Plus and ImageWriter LQ discontinued.
Zip Technologies releases the Zip GS cards to accelerate the Apple IIGS.[78]
1990 Apple II Achievement Awards held at AppleFest.[79]
1991 January
Apple introduces HyperCard IIGS.[80]
1991 February
Apple IIGS System Software v5.0.4 released.
1991 March
Apple IIe card (for Macintosh LC) released ($199).[81]
Westcode introduces InWords, which allows text digitized with the Quickie hand-scanner to be turned into text files.
1991 May
Apple StyleWriter ($599) and Apple Personal LaserWriter LS ($1299) released. Neither can work on the Apple II or IIGS at the time.
Mac System 7.0 released, the first major rewrite of the Mac operating system. It intoduced features such as the ability to use an "alias", as well as TrueType fonts, file sharing, and QuickTime video software.[137]
1991 June
AppleCD SC Plus, faster than the original CD-ROM drive, released ($799).
1991 July
Third A2-Central Developer's Conference (KansasFest).
Apple IIGS System Software v6.0 announced.
1991 August
The first availability, by FTP, of software needed to use the Internet with CERN's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). This lays the foundation for the World Wide Web.[104]
1991 September
Apple's first User Group Television live satellite broadcast. A new Apple IIGS is almost announced, but the project is killed by Apple management at the last minute.
1991 October
Microsoft Windows 3.0 with multimedia released.[134]
1991 November
SuperDrive interface card for Apple II released. It can use 1.4 MB capacity 3.5 disks on an Apple IIe or IIGS, making it possible (when translation software is made available) to read and write even MS-DOS disks.
1992 February
Beagle Bros ships BeagleWorks, its Macintosh integrated software package.[82]
1992 March
Apple IIGS System Software v6.0 released. It includes a driver to allow the Apple StyleWriter printer to be used on the IIGS.
1992 April
1991 Apple II Achievement Awards presented (a little late).
Econ Technologies introduces their Pegasus line of internal hard drives.
Microsoft Windows 3.1 released.[134]
1992 May
Seven Hills Software releases Express, a software-based print spooler for the Apple IIGS.
The A2 Roundtable on GEnie announces its Lost Classics project, coordinated by sysop Tim Tobin, which has the object of locating and re-releasing older Apple II software that has disappeared from the marketplace.
JEM Software announces Ultra 4.0, an upgrade to the UltraMacros language for AppleWorks 3.0.
1992 July
Fourth A2Central Developer's Conference (KansasFest).
Apple IIGS System Software v6.0.1 announced.
Nibble ceases publication.
1992 August
Paul Lutus agrees to allow Apple Writer v2.1 and GraFORTH to be released as "freeware".
Mac System 7.1 released, intoducing a separate Fonts folder, and computer-specific system "enablers".[137] (Note: The Apple IIGS System Software had a Fonts folder since GS/OS was introduced in 1988).
1992 October
Beagle Bros ends business, as sales of their Mac integraged software package, BeagleWorks, are insufficient to keep the company afloat.[83] WordPerfect Corp. purchases BeagleWorks, planning to rename it WordPerfect Works. They also hire former Beagle Bros president Mark Simonsen and programmer Mark Munz to work for them.
1992 December
Apple IIGS discontinued.
1993 March
Randy Brant begins working on "The Works 4.0", code-named "Quadriga", designed to be an add-on patcher program for AppleWorks 3.0 for Quality Computers. (This later becomes AppleWorks 4.0.)
II Alive begins publication.
1993 April
Digisoft Innovations releases Twilight II, an updated and enhanced version of their original shareware GS/OS screen blanker.
Econ Technologies begins shipping the SoundMeister, a new IIgs stereo and sound digitizer card.
1993 May
inCider/A+ ceases publication.
1993 June
A2-Central discontinues their paper edition, switching to a disk-only newsletter.
System 6.0.1 released for the IIGS, and System 4.0.2 released for 8-bit Apple II's.
John Sculley steps down as CEO of Apple, later leaving the company altogether.
AppleWorks 4.0, code-named "Quadriga", officially announced.
Apple Assembly Line now available in a digital form, exclusively on GEnie.
Westcode begins shipment of HardPressed, their disk compression software.
1993 July
Fifth A2-Central Developer's Conference (KansasFest).
1993 August
Apple releases the first version of its Newton personal digital assistant (PDA).
Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 released.[134]
1993 October
Mac System 7 Pro (7.1.1) released, introducing features that previously had to be separately installed (QuickTime, PowerTalk, and AppleScript).[137]
1993 November
Apple IIe discontinued. The only Apple II still being manufactured is the IIe card for the Macintosh LC series.
DiskQuest software introduced by Sequential Systems, making several commercial CD-ROM products readable by Apple II computers.
AppleWorks 4.0 released by Quality Computers.
Bob Consorti releases BOS ("Bob's Operating System") as a replacement and enhancement for SOS ("Sophisticated Operating System") on the Apple III.
1994 February
Apple changes the status of HyperCard IIgs to be the same as System Software, in that it is available from qualified sources for the cost of a download or the cost of the disk media.
1994 March
Mac System 7.1.2 released, the first version of the Mac operating system to support the new PowerPC-based Macintosh computers.[137]
1994 May
Commodore International, Ltd, the maker of the PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and Amiga computers, announces that it is voluntarily going out of business and into liquidation.
1994 June
The Apple II SuperDrive interface card and the SuperDrive itself is discontinued.
HyperCard IIgs is made available through user groups for free (disks only; the manuals sell out quickly).
1994 July
Sixth A2-Central Developer's Converence (now named ICONference, and open to platforms other than the Apple II).
AppleWorks 5.0, code-named "Narnia", is announced by Randy Brandt.
Gary Kildall, author of the CP/M operating system for 8080-based personal computers dies at the age of 52.[85]
1994 November
America Online discontinues its Apple II service, effectively locking these users out (since it required proprietary software to access the service).
AppleWorks 5.0 released by Quality Computers
1995 January
Mac System 7.5 released. It was the first operating system installable from either floppy disks or a CD-ROM, and included Apple Guide (a help system), and at startup displayed a progress bar and the "Welcome to Macintosh" logo.[137]
1995 February
A2-Central ceases publication. ICON (Resource Central) closes its doors, ceasing publication of its several disk magazines, due to financial constraints.
1995 March
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