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Steven Jobs
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IBM and Hewlett-Packard are the treasure-laden galleons in this made-for-TV movie, while computer geeks Bill Gates and Steven Jobs are the shaggy-haired plunderers. When Gates and his people swagger into IBM and offer to license, not sell, the giant corporation their "DOS" operating system, we can't help but smile when one of the suits smirks, "Fine, the profits are in the computers themselves, not the software." The same thing happens when Jobs' partner, Steve Wozniak—who worked at Hewlett-Packard and was under contractual obligation to give them first shot at anything he helped invent—plunks down a rough-looking personal computer framed in plywood, and the HP execs derisively pass.
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Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs had been friends in high school. They had both been interested in electronics, and both had been perceived as outsiders. They kept in touch after graduation, and both ended up dropping out of school and getting jobs working for companies in Silicon Valley.
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Description: When Steven Jobs rocked the music industry with the iPod, was it because he was a master musician? Does he even play any instruments? Is he an expert in technology? Does he program or design computer chips? Is he a master of business—does Jobs have an MBA or even a college degree? Is he an expert in the law behind digital rights management (DRM)?
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Steven Jobs helped to establish Apple Computer in 1976 in Cupertino, California. Jobs was the entrepreneurial spirit who bridged the gap between the circuitry and the public. He believed that computers were not destined to be confined in laboratories and developed a friendly image for Apple’s computers that appealed to the everyday person. He covered the machine in a light-colored plastic that was handsome and homey. Even the name Apple was selected for its friendly image. Apple’s small, attractive, inexpensive, and easy-to-use computers were an instant success.
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Steven Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955. He was orphaned and later adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Paul was a machinist at Spectra-Physics, where Jobs got his first taste of mechanical and electronic things. When Jobs was in high school, he was very unhappy at his school in Mountain View, so the family moved to Los Altos, CA. It was during his high school years in Los Altos that Jobs would attend Hewlett-Packard electonics lectures. This led to his first summer job at Hewlett-Packard, where he saw his first computer. At the age of 16, he met Stephen Wozniak, who ... worked for Hewlett-Packard.
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Steven Jobs was born February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He grew up with one sister, Patty. Paul Jobs was a machinist and fixed cars as a hobby. Jobs remembers his father as being very skilled at working with his hands.
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