Steve Jobs
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 gadgets. He worked on perfecting an illegal gadget called "blue Box" that allowed them to get free long distance calls from pay phones. Jobs helped "Woz" to sell a number of "blue boxes". In 1972 Steve graduated from high school and registered at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After dropping out of Reed after one semester he hung around the campus for a year taking classes in philosophy and immersing himself in the counter culture. In 1974, Steve Jobs took a job as a video game designer at Atari, Inc., a pioneer in electro
Steve Jobs went back to Apple as an interim CEO last August. He has made many changes to the company. People that he has worked with are afraid of being "Steved" if they don't work hard enough; that means fired by Steve. Jobs and a new member to NeXT, Peter Van Cuylenburg, age 44, planned on releasing NeXTStep to run on the mainstream as an operating system in the fall of 1993. Steve sold over $20 million in Apple shares. He spent days along the beach, went to Europe. One day inspiration came to Steve. He wanted a company to call his own. He left Apple for good and founded NeXTStep with five key Apple employees. Jobs' new ideas weren't in the hardware industry but in the software industry. He developed NeXTOS tm and in mid 1989 NeXT came out with a $7,000 monochrome system. It had no floppy, virtually no useful software, and a slow magneto-optical disk. In the end only 50,000 NeXTStep machines were ever built.
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