Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was born Steven Paul Jobs on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. Steve parents Paul Jobs, and Clara Jobs adopted him at birth. He knew from an early age that he was adopted because his parents were very honest with him. Knowing that he was adopted made him feel very independent, and he always felt special. He considered his adopted parents his real parents and biological parents were just his sperm and egg bank donors. Jobs was always a smart child, before he entered elementary school his mother had taught him how to read. As a child he always got bullied, which caused him and his family to relocate and Jobs was placed in a new school.

As Jobs grew older he attended Homestead High. Between his sophomore and junior year, he began smoking marijuana. That did not stop him from excelling in school, he was very intellectual and he found himself immersed in electronics. He had taken a class with Mr. McCollum who felt that electronics class was the new auto shop class. Instead of Jobs taking three years with McCollum he only took one year. While he was a student in McCollum’s class, Jobs became friends with a graduate who was wizardry in his class. His name was Stephen Wozniak. Jobs had dropped out of college and moved back home, and he was hanging around his high school friend Stephen Wozniak.

Wozniak was at a club meeting and he saw an Altair, which is the first personal computer to be built from a kit. This is where his vision came when he thought he could make a desktop computer. Later that night he sketched out on paper what he envisioned, and that is when he napped it Apple I. On Sunday June 29, this was when the first personal computer came to life. This was the day anyone had typed a character on keyboard and seen it show up on their computer screen. Wozniak wanted to give the design away for free, but Jobs convinced Wozniak not to give the blueprint away.

After discovering the personal computer, both Jobs and Wozniak went to work in Jobs garage and began making the computers by hand. It never crossed Wozniak mind to sell computers, but it was Jobs who pushed his friend to start selling computers. Within two months, Jobs was twenty-two years old, he had not invented Apple computer, but he had invented Apple computer. After Apple I, Wozniak went to work on Apple II, which would consist to be more of powerful machines. Jobs envisioned a molded plastic case that would house the whole computer, everything but the keyboard. Apple II became a major triumph. Despite the huge success of Apple II, Jobs wanted to try out another computer named Apple Macintosh. The Mac would sell for $1,000, and it was meant to appeal to the masses. By the time the Mac was released in 1984 the price had doubled.

On May 17, 1978 Jobs was 23 and had his daughter Lisa Nicole Brennan with his high school girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan. He had always said he did not