Apple Computers Interstellar (ACI) is able to trace it's origins back to 20th century Terra and is one of the longest-surviving companies in the entire Inner Sphere. For the first half of its life, it existed by producing computers for a more or less niche market, but during the Star League era the company grew into a truly interstellar industrial power, thanks to a succession of League government contracts.  The fall of the Star League and the Succession Wars that followed nearly destroyed the company, though.  All but one of its factories were destroyed, and it subsisted for years primarily by servicing the machines they had sold the Star League government.  Systems which proved largely incompatible with the bulk of the computers in service through the rest of the Inner Sphere and by utilizing the tax base of the company's wholly-owned base world of Macintosh. Ultimately, the company diversified, debuting a number of computer and software lines that allowed the company to rebound and gain a lasting reputation for foresight and innovation.