Born 1955 Los Altos CA; Evangelic bad boy who, with Steve Wozniak, co-founded Apple Computer Corporation and became a multimillionaire before the age of 30. Subsequently started the NeXT Corporation to provide an educational system at a reasonable price, but found that software was a better seller than hardware.
Steven Paul, was an orphan adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View,
California in February 1955. Jobs was not happy at school in Mountain View
So the family moved to Los Altos, California, where Steven attended Homestead High School. His electronics teacher at Homestead High, Hohn McCollum, recalled he was «something of a loner» and «always had a different way of looking at things.»
Going to work for Atari after leaving Reed College, Jobs renewed his friendship with Steve Wozniak. The two designed computer games for Atari and a telephone «blue box», getting much of their impetus from the Homebrew Computer Club. Beginning work in the Job's family garage they managed to make their first «killing» when the Byte Shop in Mountain View bought their first fifty fully assembled computers. On this basis the Apple Corporation was founded, the name based on Job's favorite fruit and the logo.
Steve Jobs innovative idea of a personel computer led him into revolutionizing the computer hardware and software industry. When Jobs was twenty one, he and a friend, Wozniak, built a personel computer called the Apple. The Apple changed people's idea of a computer from a gigantic and inscrutable mass of vacuum tubes only used by big business and the government to a small box used by ordinary people. No company has done more to democratize the computer and make it user-friendly than Apple Computer Inc. Jobs software development for the Macintosh re-introduced windows interface and mouse technology which set a standard for all applications interface in software.
Two years after building the Apple I, Jobs introduced the Apple II. The
Apple II was the best buy in personal computers for home and small business
Throughout the following five years. When the Macintosh was introduced in
1984, it was marketed towards medium and large businesses. The Macintosh took the first major step in adapting the personal computer to the needs of the corporate work force. Steve Jobs was considered a brilliant young man in Silicon Valley, because he saw the future demands of the computer industry. He was able to build a personal computer and market the product. His innovative ideas of user-friendly software for the Macintosh changed the design and functionality of software interfaces created for computers. The Macintosh's interface allowed people to interact easier with computers, because they used a mouse to click on objects displayed on the screen to perform some function. The Macintosh got ride of the computer command lines that
Born 1955 Los Altos CA; Evangelic bad boy who, with Steve Wozniak, co-founded Apple Computer Corporation and became a multimillionaire before the age of 30. Subsequently started the NeXT Corporation to provide an educational system at a Reasonable price, but found that software was a better seller than hardware.
Steven Paul, was an orphan adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California in February 1955. Jobs was not happy at school in Mountain View so The family moved to Los Altos, California, where Steven attended Homestead High School. His electronics teacher at Homestead High, Hohn McCollum, recalled he Was «something of a loner» and «always had a different way of looking at Things.»
Going to work for Atari after leaving Reed College, Jobs renewed his friendship With Steve Wozniak. The two designed computer games for Atari and a telephone «blue box», getting much of their impetus from the Homebrew Computer Club. Beginning work in the Job's family garage they managed to make their first «killing» when the Byte Shop in Mountain View bought their first fifty fully Assembled computers. On this basis the Apple Corporation was founded, the name Based on Job's favorite fruit and the logo.
Steve Jobs innovative idea of a personel computer led him into revolutionizing The computer hardware and software industry. When Jobs was twenty one, he and a Friend, Wozniak, built a personel computer called the Apple. The Apple changed People's idea of a computer from a gigantic and inscrutable mass of vacuum tubes Only used by big business and the government to a small box used by ordinary People. No company has done more to democratize the computer and make it user - Friendly than Apple Computer Inc. Jobs software development for the Macintosh Re-introduced windows interface and mouse technology which set a standard for All applications interface in software.
Two years after building the Apple I, Jobs introduced the Apple II. The Apple II Was the best buy in personal computers for home and small business throughout The following five years. When the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, it was Marketed towards medium and large businesses. The Macintosh took the first major Step in adapting the personal computer to the needs of the corporate work force. Steve Jobs was considered a brilliant young man in Silicon Valley, because he Saw the future demands of the computer industry. He was able to build a personal Computer and market the product. His innovative ideas of user-friendly software For the Macintosh changed the design and functionality of software interfaces Created for computers. The Macintosh's interface allowed people to interact Easier with computers, because they used a mouse to click on objects displayed On the screen to perform some function. The Macintosh got ride of the computer Command lines that intemidated people from using computers. After resigning from Apple Inc., Jobs would continue challenging himself to develop computers and Software for education and research by starting a new company that would Eventually develop the NextStep computer.
After school, Jobs attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard electronics firm in Palo Alto, California. There he was hired as a summer employee. Another employee At Hewlett-Packard was Stephen Wozniak a recent dropout from the University of California at Berkeley. An engineering whiz with a passion for inventing Electronic gadgets, Wozniak at that time was perfecting his «blue box,» an Illegal pocket-size telephone attachment that would allow the user to make free Long-distance calls. Jobs helped Wozniak sell a number of the devices to Customers.
After school, Jobs attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard electronics firm in Palo Alto, California. There he was hired as a summer employee. Another employee At Hewlett-Packard was Stephen Wozniak a recent dropout from the University of California at Berkeley. An engineering whiz with a passion for inventing Electronic gadgets.
Wozniak and Jobs designed the Apple I computer in Jobs's bedroom and they built The prototype in the Jobs' garage. Jobs showed the machine to a local Electronics equipment retailer, who ordered twenty-five. Jobs received marketing Advice from a friend, who was a retired CEO from Intel, and he helped them with Marketing strategies for selling their new product. Jobs and Wozniak had great Inspiration in starting a computer company that would produce and sell computers. To start this company they sold their most valuable possessions. Jobs sold his Volkswagen micro-bus and Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator, Which raised $1,300 to start their new company. With that capital base and Credit begged from local electronics suppliers, they set up their first Production line. Jobs came up with the name of their new company Apple in Memory of a happy summer he had spent as an orchard worker in Oregon.
Jobs and Wozniak put together their first computer, called the Apple I. They Marketed it in 1976 at a price of $666. The Apple I was the first single-board Computer with built-in video interface, and on-board ROM, which told the machine How to load other programs from an external source. Jobs was marketing the Apple I at hobbyists like members of the Homebrew Computer Club who could now perform Their own operations on their personal computers. Jobs and Wozniak managed to Earn $774,000 from the sales of the Apple I. The following year, Jobs and Wozniak developed the general purpose Apple II. The design of the Apple II did Not depart from Apple I's simplistic and compactness design. The Apple II was The Volkswagon of computers. The Apple II had built-in circuitry allowing it to Interface directly to a color video monitor. Jobs encouraged independent Programmers to invent applications for Apple II. The result was a library of Some 16,000 software programs.
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