EXHIBIT 10.A.6
			APPLE COMPUTER, INC.
		    EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
		(as amended through September 9, 1996)


	The following constitute the provisions of the Employee Stock 
Purchase Plan (herein called the "Plan") of Apple Computer, Inc. (herein 
called the "Company").

	1.	Purpose.	The purpose of the Plan is to provide 
employees of the Company and its subsidiaries with an opportunity to 
purchase Common Stock of the Company through payroll deductions.  It 
is the intention of the Company to have the Plan qualify as an "Employee 
Stock Purchase Plan" under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986.  The provisions of the Plan shall, accordingly, be construed so as to 
extend and limit participation in a manner consistent with the requirements 
of that section of the Code.

	2.	Definitions.

		(a)	"Board"  shall mean the Board of Directors of 
the Company.

		(b)	"Common Stock"  shall mean the Common 
Stock, no par value, of the Company.

		(c)	"Company"  shall mean Apple Computer, Inc., 
a California corporation.

		(d)	"Compensation" shall mean all regular straight 
time earnings, payments for overtime, shift premium, incentive 
compensation, incentive payments, bonuses and commissions (except to 
the extent that the exclusion of any such items is specifically directed by 
the Board or its committee).

		(e)	"Designated Subsidiaries" shall mean the 
Subsidiaries which have been designated by the Board from time to time in 
its sole discretion as eligible to participate in the Plan.

		(f)	"Employee" means any person, including an 
officer, who is customarily employed for at least twenty (20) hours per 
week and more than five (5) months in a calendar year by the Company or 
one of its Designated Subsidiaries.

		(g)	"Plan"  shall mean this Employee Stock 
Purchase Plan.

		(h)	"Section 16 Person" shall mean any person 
participating in the Plan who has been designated by the Board of Directors 
as having authority to carry out policy-making functions such that the 
person is subject to the reporting and short-swing profit regulations of 
Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

		(i)	"Subsidiary" shall mean a corporation, domestic 
or foreign, of which not less than 50% of the voting shares are held by the 
Company or a Subsidiary, whether or not such corporation now exists or 
is hereafter organized or acquired by the Company or a Subsidiary.

		(j)	"1934 Act Section 16" shall mean Section 16 
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations 
promulgated thereunder.

	3.	Eligibility.

		(a)	Any Employee as defined in Section 2 who 
shall be employed by the Company or one of its Designated Subsidiaries 
on the date his or her participation in the Plan is effective shall be eligible 
to participate in the Plan, subject to the limitations imposed by Section 
423(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

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		(b)	Any provisions of the Plan to the contrary 
notwithstanding, no Employee shall be granted an option under the Plan (i) 
if, immediately after the grant, such Employee would own shares and/or 
hold outstanding options to purchase stock possessing five percent (5%) or 
more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of shares 
of the Company or of any Subsidiary of the Company, or (ii) which 
permits his or her rights to purchase shares under all employee stock 
purchase plans of the Company and its Subsidiaries to accrue at a rate 
which exceeds Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) of the fair market 
value of the shares (determined at the time such option is granted) for each 
calendar year in which such stock option is outstanding at any time.

	4.	Offering Dates.  The Plan shall be implemented by one 
offering during each six-month period of the Plan, commencing on or 
about January 1, 1981 and continuing thereafter until terminated in 
accordance with Section 19 hereof.  The Board of Directors of the 
Company shall have the power to change the duration of offering periods 
with respect to future offerings without shareholder approval if such change 
is announced at least fifteen (15) days prior to the scheduled beginning of 
the first offering period to be affected.

	5.	Participation.

		(a)	An eligible Employee may become a participant 
in the Plan by completing a subscription agreement authorizing payroll 
deductions on the form provided by the Company and filing it with the 
Company's payroll office prior to the applicable offering date.  Once filed, 
the subscription agreement shall remain effective for all subsequent 
offering periods until the participant withdraws from the Plan as provided 
in Section 10 hereof or files another subscription agreement.

		(b)	Payroll deductions for a participant shall 
commence on the first payroll following the commencement offering date 
and shall continue at the same rate until such time as the participant 
withdraws from the Plan as provided in Section 10 hereof or another 
subscription agreement is filed which changes the rate of payroll 
deductions.

	6.	Payroll Deductions.

		(a)	At the time a participant files his or her 
subscription agreement, he or she shall elect to have payroll deductions 
made on each payday during subsequent offering periods at a rate not 
exceeding ten percent (10%) of the Compensation which he or she received 
on such payday, and the aggregate of such payroll deductions during any 
offering period shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of his or her aggregate 
Compensation during said offering period.

		(b)	All payroll deductions made by a participant 
shall be credited to his or her account under the Plan.  A participant may 
not make any additional payments into such account.

		(c)	A participant may discontinue his or her 
participation in the Plan as provided in Section 10, or may lower, but not 
increase, the rate of his or her payroll deductions (within the limitations set
forth in subsection (a) above) during an offering period by completing and 
filing with the Company a new authorization for payroll deductions.  The 
change in rate shall be effective within fifteen (15) days following the 
Company's receipt of the new authorization.

		(d)	A participant may increase his or her rate of 
payroll deductions (within the limitations set forth in subsection (a) 
above) to be effective for the next offering period by completing and filing
with the Company a new authorization for payroll deductions at least 
fifteen (15) days before the beginning of said offering period.

	7.	Grant of Option.

		(a)	At the beginning of each six-month offering 
period, each eligible Employee participating in the Plan shall be granted an
option to purchase (at the per share option price) up to a number of shares 
of the Company's Common Stock determined by dividing the Employee's 
accumulated payroll deductions (not to exceed an amount equal to ten 
percent (10%) of his or her Compensation during the applicable offering 
period) by the lower of (i)eighty-five percent (85%) of the fair market 
value of a share of the Company's Common Stock on the date of the 
commencement of said offering period, or (ii)eighty-five percent (85%) of 
the fair market value of a share of the Company's Common Stock on the 
date of the expiration of the offering period, subject to the limitations set
forth in Sections 3(b) and 12 hereof, and subject to the following 
limitation:  The number of shares of the Company's Common Stock 
subject to any option granted to an Employee pursuant to this Plan shall 
not exceed two hundred percent (200%) of the number of shares of the 
Company's Common Stock determined by dividing an amount equal to ten 
percent (10%) of the Employee's semi-annual Compensation as of the date 
of the commencement of the applicable offering period by eighty-five 
percent (85%) of the fair market value of a share of the Company's 
Common Stock on the date of the commencement of said offering period.  
Fair market value of a share of the Company's Common Stock shall be 
determined as provided in Section 7(b) herein.
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		(b)	The option price per share of such shares shall 
be the lower of:  (i) 85% of the fair market value of a share of the 
Common Stock of the Company at the commencement of the six-month 
offering period; or (ii) 85% of the fair market value of a share of the 
Common Stock of the Company at the time the option is exercised at the 
termination of the six-month offering period.  The fair market value of the 
Company's Common Stock on a given date shall be the mean of the 
reported bid and asked prices for that date, or if the Common Stock is listed 
on an exchange or quoted on the Nasdaq National Market, the closing sale 
price on such exchange or quotation system for that date.

	8.	Exercise of Option.  Unless a participant withdraws from 
the Plan as provided in Section 10, his or her option for the purchase of 
shares will be exercised automatically at the end of the offering period, and 
the maximum number of full shares subject to option will be purchased for 
him or her at the applicable option price with the accumulated payroll 
deductions in his or her account.  During his or her lifetime, a participant's 
option to purchase shares hereunder is exercisable only by him or her.

	9.	Delivery; Roll-Over of Fractional Share Interests.  

		As promptly as practicable after the termination of each 
offering, the Company shall arrange for the delivery to each participant, as 
appropriate, of a certificate representing the number of full shares purchased 
upon exercise of his or her option.  No fractional shares shall be issued. 
Any cash remaining to the credit of a participant's account under the Plan 
after a purchase by him or her of shares at the termination of each offering 
period which is insufficient to purchase a full share of Common Stock of 
the Company subject to option shall remain in such participant's account 
and shall be applied to the next succeeding offering period unless the 
participant has withdrawn as to future offering periods, in which case such 
cash shall be returned to said participant. Any cash attributable to shares in 
excess of the number of shares subject to option to the participant (as 
determined in accordance with Section 7(a) hereof) shall be returned to the 
participant.

	10. 	Withdrawal; Termination of Employment.

		(a)	A participant may withdraw all but not less 
than all the payroll deductions credited to his or her account under the Plan 
at any time prior to the end of the offering period by giving written notice 
to the Company.  All of the participant's payroll deductions credited to his 
or her account will be paid to him or her promptly after receipt of his or 
her notice of withdrawal and his or her option for the current period will be 
automatically terminated, and no further payroll deductions for the purchase 
of shares will be made during the offering period.

		(b)	Upon termination of the participant's 
employment prior to the end of the offering period for any reason, 
including retirement or death, the payroll deductions credited to his or her 
account will be returned to him or her or, in the case of his or her death, to 
the person or persons entitled thereto under Section 14, and his or her 
option will be automatically terminated.

		(c)	In the event an Employee fails to remain in the 
continuous employ of the Company or one of its Designated Subsidiaries 
for at least twenty (20) hours per week during the offering period in which 
the employee is a participant, he or she will be deemed to have elected to 
withdraw from the Plan and the payroll deductions credited to his or her 
account will be returned to him or her and his or her option terminated.

		(d)	Except as provided in Section 3(a) with respect 
to Section 16 Persons, a participant's withdrawal from an offering will not 
have any effect upon his or her eligibility to participate in a succeeding 
offering or in any similar plan which may hereafter be adopted by the 
Company.  However, a new subscription agreement will have to be filed in 
such case.

	11.	No Interest.  No interest shall accrue on the payroll 
deductions of a participant in the Plan.

	12.	Stock.

		(a)	The maximum number of shares of the 
Company's Common Stock which shall be made available for sale under 
the Plan shall be eleven million five hundred thousand (11,500,000) 
shares, subject to adjustment upon changes in capitalization of the 
Company as provided in Section 18. The shares to be sold to participants 
under the Plan may, at the election of the Company, be either treasury 
shares or shares authorized but unissued.  If at the termination of any 
offering period the total number of shares which would otherwise be 
subject to options granted pursuant to Section 7(a) hereof exceeds the 
number of shares then available under the Plan (after deduction of all share
for which options have been exercised or are then outstanding), the 
Company shall promptly notify the participants, and shall, in its sole 
discretion 

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(i) make a pro rata allocation of the shares remaining available for option 
grant in as uniform a manner as shall be practicable and as it shall 
determine to be equitable, (ii) terminate the offering period without 
issuance of any shares or (iii) obtain shareholder approval of an increase in
the number of shares authorized under the Plan such that all options could 
be exercised in full.  The Company may delay determining which of (i), 
(ii) or (iii) above it shall decide to effect, and may accordingly delay 
issuances of any shares under the Plan, for such time as is necessary to 
attempt to obtain shareholder approval of any increase in shares authorized 
under the Plan.  The Company shall promptly notify participants of its 
determination to effect (i), (ii) or (iii) above upon making such decision.  
A participant may withdraw all but not less than all the payroll deductions 
credited to his or her account under the Plan at any time prior to such 
notification from the Company.  In the event the Company determines to 
effect (i) or (ii) above, it shall promptly upon such determination return to 
each participant all payroll deductions not applied towards the purchase of 
shares.  

		(b)	The participant will have no interest or voting 
right in shares covered by his or her option until such option has been 
exercised.

		(c)	Shares to be delivered to a participant under the 
Plan will be registered in the name of the participant or in the name of the 
participant and the spouse of the participant.

	13.	Administration.  The Plan shall be administered by a 
committee of members of the Board of Directors, which committee shall 
be appointed by the Board.  The administration, interpretation or 
application of the Plan by such committee shall be final, conclusive and 
binding upon all participants.  Members of the committee shall not be 
permitted to participate in the Plan.

	14.	Designation of Beneficiary.

		(a)	A participant may indicate in his or her 
subscription agreement, or may file a written designation of beneficiary 
with respect to, a person who is to receive any shares and cash, if any, 
from the participant's account under the Plan in the event of such 
participant's death subsequent to the end of the offering period but prior to 
delivery to him or her of such shares and cash.  In addition, a participant 
may file a written designation of a beneficiary who is to receive any cash 
from the participant's account under the Plan in the event of such 
participant's death prior to the end of the offering period.

		(b)	Such designation of beneficiary may be changed 
by the participant at any time by written notice.  In the event of the death 
of a participant and in the absence of a beneficiary validly designated under 
the Plan who is living at the time of such participant's death, the 
Company shall deliver such shares and/or cash to the executor or 
administrator of the estate of the participant, or if no such executor or 
administrator has been appointed (to the knowledge of the Company), the 
Company, in its discretion, may deliver such shares and/or cash to the 
spouse or to any one or more dependents or relatives of the participant, or 
if no spouse, dependent or relative is known to the Company, then to such 
other person as the Company may designate.

	15.	Transferability.  Neither payroll deductions credited to a 
participant's account nor any rights with regard to the exercise of an option 
or to receive shares under the Plan may be assigned, transferred, pledged or 
otherwise disposed of in any way (other than by will, the laws of descent 
and distribution or as provided in Section 14 hereof) by the participant.  
Any such attempt at assignment, transfer, pledge or other disposition shall 
be without effect, except that the Company may treat such act as an 
election to withdraw funds in accordance with Section 10.

	16.	Use of Funds.  All payroll deductions received or held by 
the Company under the Plan may be used by the Company for any 
corporate purpose, and the Company shall not be obligated to segregate 
such payroll deductions.

	17.	Reports.  Individual accounts will be maintained for each 
participant in the Plan.  Statements of account will be given to 
participating Employees semi-annually within a reasonable period of time 
following the stock purchase date, which statements will set forth the 
amounts of payroll deductions, the per share purchase price, the number of 
shares purchased, the amount of cash rolled over into the next offering 
period and the remaining cash balance, if any.

	18.	Adjustments Upon Changes in Capitalization.  Subject 
to any required action by the shareholders of the Company, the number of 
shares of Common Stock covered by each option under the Plan which has 
not yet been exercised and the number of shares of Common Stock which 
have been authorized for issuance under the Plan but have not yet been 
placed under option (collectively, the "Reserves"), as well as the price per 
share of Common Stock covered by each option under the Plan which has 
not yet been exercised, shall be proportionately adjusted for any increase or 
decrease in the number of issued shares of Common Stock resulting from a 
stock split or the payment of a stock dividend (but only on the Common 
Stock) or any other increase or decrease in the number of shares of 
Common Stock

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effected without receipt of consideration by the Company; provided, 
however, that conversion of any convertible securities of the Company 
shall not be deemed to have been "effected without receipt of 
consideration".  Such adjustment shall be made by the Board, whose 
determination in that respect shall be final, binding and conclusive.  Except 
as expressly provided herein, no issue by the Company of shares of stock 
of any class, or securities convertible into or exercisable for shares of stock 
of any class, shall affect, and no adjustment by reason thereof shall be 
made with respect to, the number or price of shares of Common Stock 
subject to an Option.

	The Board may, if it so determines in the exercise of its sole 
discretion, also make provision for adjusting the Reserves, as well as the 
price per share of Common Stock covered by each outstanding option 
under the Plan, in the event that the Company effects one or more 
reorganizations, recapitalizations, rights offerings or other increases or 
reductions of shares of its outstanding Common Stock, and in the event of 
the Company being consolidated with or merged into any other 
corporation.

	19.	Amendment and Termination of the Plan.

		(a)	Amendment and Termination.  The Board may 
at any time amend, alter, suspend or discontinue the Plan, but no 
amendment, alteration, suspension or discontinuation shall be made which 
would impair the rights of any participant under any option theretofore 
granted without his or her consent.  

		(b)	Shareholder Approval.  The Company shall 
obtain shareholder approval of any Plan amendment to the extent necessary 
and desirable to comply with Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or with Section 423 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any successor statute or rule or 
other applicable law, rule or regulation), such shareholder approval to be 
obtained in such a manner and to such a degree as is required by the 
applicable law, rule or regulation.

		(c)	Effect of Amendment or Termination.  Any 
such amendment or termination of the Plan shall not affect options already 
granted hereunder and such options shall remain in full force and effect as if 
this Plan had not been amended or terminated.

	20.	Notices.  All notices or other communications by a 
participant to the Company under or in connection with the Plan shall be 
deemed to have been duly given when received in the form specified by the 
Company at the location, or by the person, designated by the Company for 
the receipt thereof.  All notices or other communications to a participant 
by the Company shall be deemed to have been duly given when sent by the 
Company by regular mail to the address of the participant on the human 
resources records of the Company or when posted on AppleLink or any 
substitute general electronic messaging and bulletin board system utilized 
by the Company.

	21.	Conditions Upon Issuance of Shares.  Shares shall not 
be issued with respect to an option unless the exercise of such option and 
the issuance and delivery of such shares pursuant thereto shall comply with 
all applicable provisions of law, domestic or foreign, including, without 
limitation, the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the rules and regulations promulgated 
thereunder, and the requirements of any stock exchange or automated 
quotation system upon which the shares may then be listed or quoted, and 
shall be further subject to the approval of counsel for the Company with 
respect to such compliance.

		As a condition to the exercise of an option, the 
Company may require the person exercising such option to represent and 
warrant at the time of any such exercise that the shares are being purchased 
only for investment and without any present intention to sell or distribute 
such shares if, in the opinion of counsel for the Company, such a 
representation is required by any of the aforementioned applicable 
provisions of law.


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