Steve Wozniak: Technology entrepreneur

Steve Wozniak was born as Stephan Gary Wozniak in 1950 to Francis Jacob Wozniak and Margaret Louise Wozniak. His father was from Michigan and his mother from Washington State.

Steve Wozniak’s passion for electronics stemmed from his father’s career as an engineer at Lockheed Martin.

Woz built his first computer when he was 13 and took top prizes in a science fair. At 19 he met 14-year-old Steve jobs and the two built an electronic “blue box” enabling them to make free phone calls by seizing phone-company lines.

By 1975, Woz dropped out of the University of California, Berkeley and came up with a computer that eventually became successful nationwide.

Woz’s computer, named Apple I, was a fully assembled and functional unit that contained a $25 microprocessor on a single-circuit board with ROM.

On April 1 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. Wozniak quit his job at Hewlett-Packard and became the vice president in charge of research and development at Apple.

The following year, he introduced his Apple II personal computer, featuring a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive.

The company enjoyed much success during the past decade with its stock price hitting a high of $200 in 2007. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and together with Ronald Wayne, they donned the generation of affordable personal computers and was the first step in the advancement of the major corporation known today as Apple Inc.

In 1981, Wozniak went back to UC Berkeley and finished his degree in electrical engineering/computer science. For his achievements at Apple, Wozniak was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed on America’s leading innovators.
Steve Wozniak: Technology entrepreneur

Steve jobs of Apple computer

Born February 24th 1955, Steve Jobs was co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Jobs was raised by adoptive parents in Cupertino, California, located in what is now known as Silicon Valley. Though he was interested in engineering, his passions of youth varied.

Steve attended a few classes at Stanford University. He also spent a lot of time working at an apple farm in Oregon that was owned by one of his friends from Reed.

In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, started a computer company in a garage California, USA. They called the company Apple and their dream was for computer to be part of everyone’s lives.

Forty years later Apple employs 60,000 -people and has 357 shops around the world. Apple II series of computers was the first commercially successful line of personal computers, and led to the Apple Lisa in 1983 - the first computer to use a mouse-driven GUI (graphical user interface).

In 1984 Apple presents the Macintosh 128K personal computer. In July 1997, Jobs returned to the floundering computer business he had co‐founded two decades earlier.

In 1985, after a long and drawn-out fight with the Apple board, Steve Jobs "left" the company that he helped create.

In July 1997, Jobs returned to the floundering computer business he had co‐founded two decades earlier. He was interim CEO from 1997 to 2000, becoming the permanent CEO from that point until his eventual resignation in August of 2011

And then came the iPhone in 2007, which took Apple from a major player to the company everyone was trying to emulate. Overnight, the iPhone reinvented cell phone technology, and it was yet another crushing victory for Steve Jobs.

In 2010 Apple launches the Ipad. By the time he died in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company.
Steve jobs of Apple computer