Apple Computer
Apple Computer Founders in Brief
Handymen make money from instrumental works and paid for small jobs normally. Such skilled-job workers are mostly driven by personal hobbies to engage with certain pleasing activities during leisure time. Yet, handymen are not only people with small money to reap from their skill. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, founders of Apple Computer, have proven to people that hobby as handymen can also make somebody rich and carved a significant relief in the history of computer advancement.
Steve Wozniak was born on August 11, 1950 in San Jose Silicon Valley. He inherited the spirit of engineer from his father. Wozniak attended many schools during his teenage years and joined a plenty of electronic competitions. The first championship on electronic competition was in 1967 when he designed a homemade machine. His deep interest in computer was further flourished with the assistance of his teachers at schools who eventually promoted him to work for DEC Computer. The great journey of Wozniak took a leap beginning during this first job, including an obsession to design a new computer.
In 1968, Wozniak met Steve Jobs who came with a small job to get done. As Jobs was not really keen on computer and electronics, his friendship with Wozniak went flat. Entering 1971, Wozniak began create his first new small computer called as the Cream Soda Computer, a self calculator with memory programming which is lately one of it known as Altair.
The second meeting of Wozniak with Jobs took place when both young men initiated to write an intriguing “blue box” idea on newspaper. The article was about an idea to build small circuits where free phone calls could be made through dialing telephone switchboards. This fashionable invention was turned to a business by Wozniak and Jobs by selling the circuit to the companies. The partnership of these two young handymen continued to learning John Draper aka Capt’n Crunch which is later known as an important nucleus for Apple Computer.
As a matter of fact, Steve Jobs was much similar to Wozniak’s background. Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955, five years younger than Wozniak. Jobs grew up under adoption that later moved to Silicon Valley due to a change of family livelihood. Just like Wozniak, Jobs attended many schools during his teen ages. In 1968, het met one of Wozniak’s friends namely Bill Fernandez from whom he got to know “Woz”, Wozniak’s young nickname. Both Jobs and Wozniak joined with Hewlett-Packard starting in summer.
Jobs was in fact really interested in electronics and computer when he worked at the very beginning for Hewlett-Packard as a staff of production and measurement instruments. He began to admire the brilliant work of Wozniak when creating the Cream Soda mini computer. Having the similar interest in making jokes, Wozniak’s strong appeal in electronic and computer eventually inspired Jobs to learn in depth about these two subjects. Job’s moving to India in 1974 during couple of months did not inhibit his new interest in computer and electronic. Soon after his coming back to Silicon Valley, Jobs starts working for Atari as a staff for the division of video games development where his curiosity in computer began to flourish.
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