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Steve Jobs

was born on February 25, 1955. He was soon adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, CA. Steve wasn�t happy at school in Mountain View so the family moved to Palo Alto, CA. Steve attended Homestead High School. His electronics teacher recalled that he was �something of a loner� and �always had a different way of looking at things�. [www.apple-history.com]
After school, Steve attended lectures at Hewlett Packard Electronics firm in Palo Alto, CA. There he was hired as a summer employee. Another employee at Hewlett-Packard was Steven Wozniak, a recent drop-out from the University of California, Berkeley. �Woz� was an engineering whiz with a passion for inventing electric ...

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a pioneer in electronic arcade recreation. After a few months he saved enough money to go to India where he traveled in search of spiritual enlightenment with Dan Kottke, a friend from Reed College.
In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and started attending meetings of �Woz�s� �Homebrew Computer Club�. Woz like most of the clubs members, was happy with the creation of electronics. Steve wasn�t nearly the engineer as Woz and persuaded him to start work on a home computer.

Woz and Jobs designed the Apple I in Steve�s bedroom and built the first prototype in Steve�s parents garage. Apple I was a hit. Steve sold his Volkswagen microbus and Woz sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator to make enough money to build more machines. Jobs named the company Apple because of a happy summer working in an orchard in Oregon.

Jobs and Woz built the first real machine called the Apple I. They marketed it at a price of $666.00 in 1976. The Apple I was the first ...

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Added: 1/30/2008 09:04:41 PM
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