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Steve Wozniak
For co-founding Apple Computer and inventing the Apple I personal computer
"My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing."
— Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak was born in San Jose, California, in 1950. He received a BS in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley (1986).
Wozniak (”Woz”) built his first computer when he was 13 years old, and was an electronics prodigy in high school. At 19, he met 14-year-old Steve Jobs and the two teenagers built an electronic “blue box” enabling them to hack the public telephone network and make toll-free calls.
Their next collaboration was a kit computer, designed by Wozniak, first shown at the Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park, California, in 1976. Called the Apple i, it was meant for hobbyists, but the two Steves received an order for 50 assembled kits from a local store, suggesting to the business-savvy Jobs that there might be a market for personal computers.
The answer was the Apple i
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the duo who began Apple Computer in 1976, are among the most well-known revolutionaries of the computing age. Their invention of the first true personal computer changed people’s ideas of what a computer could look like and what it could do to make their lives easier and their work more efficient. Apple continues to be one of the most popular brands of personal computing devices in the world.
Steven Paul Jobs was born on Feb. 24, 1955 in San Francisco and was adopted as an infant and raised by a couple in Los Altos, Calif. He entered Reed College in Portland, Ore. in 1972, but he dropped out after one semester to work for Atari, a maker of video games. He had become very interested in the emerging world of personal computing while still in high school, when he began attending lectures at Hewlett-Packard Co. This is where he met and befriended Wozniak.
Stephen Gary Wozniak was born on Aug. 11, 1959 in San Jose, Calif. He left the University of California at Berkeley before he finished his degree in order to work for Hewl
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Steve Wozniak
American electrical engineer and programmer (born 1950)
Stephen Gary Wozniak (; born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname Woz, is an American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, and inventor. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Computer with his early business partner Steve Jobs. Through his work at Apple in the 1970s and 1980s, he is widely recognized as one of the most prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution.[4]
In 1975, Wozniak started developing the Apple I[5]: 150 into the computer that launched Apple when he and Jobs first began marketing it the following year. He was the primary designer of the Apple II, introduced in 1977, known as one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers,[6] while Jobs oversaw the development of its foam-molded plastic case and early Apple employee Rod Holt developed its switching power supply.[7]
With human–computer interface expert Jef Raskin, Wozniak had a major influence over the
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