1988

The following Apple-related events occurred in 1988:
===January 1988===
===February 1988===
===March 1988===
===April 1988===
*April: The Spring 1988 Apple Developers Conference is held in San Jose, California.
===May 1988===
===June 1988===
*June 14: ProDOS 16 version 1.6 is released for the Apple IIGS.
===July 1988===
===August 1988===
*August: The Summer 1988 Apple Developers Conference is held in Boston, Massachusetts.
*August 12: The first Apple Scanner is released.
*August 22: IEEE publishes standards for a Unix-like operating system interface that would become POSIX.
===September 1988===
*September 16: The Apple IIc Plus is released.
*September 19: The Macintosh IIx is released; it is the first system from Apple Computer to use a Motorola 68030 processor. Also released to support it is System 6.0.1.
*September 28-October 1: Apple Expo 1988 is held in Paris, France.
===October 1988===
===November 1988===
===December 1988===