- January 15-17: The 1986 Apple World Conference is held at Brooks Hall in San Francisco, California.
- January 16: The Macintosh Plus and LaserWriter Plus are introduced at the 1986 Apple World Conference.
- February 3: Steve Jobs acquires The Graphics Group from Lucasfilm, which then becomes Pixar.
- March 10: Marketing executive Christine Thompson joins Apple Computer.
- April 14: The Macintosh 512Ke is released along with Macintosh System 3.1.1.
- May 19: Radius is co-founded by former members of the Macintosh development team.
- August 1: The Apple Lisa is discontinued.
- September 15: The Apple IIGS and AppleColor RGB Monitor are released.
External links
- 1986: Mac Plus, 512Ke, HFS Disks, and the LaserWriter Plus by Daniel Knight at Low End Mac (1986-12-31)