the story of apple When Steve Wozniak designed a computer in 1976 his friend Steve Jobs suggested that they find a way to make it available to the public Wozniak took the computer to his bosses at Hewlett-Packard to see if they were interested in producing it They turned him down Jobs approached his employers at Atari as well offering them the opportunity to buy and market the computer but again the idea was rejected Instead of giving up however Wozniak sold his most prized possession a Hewlett-Packard programmable calculator for 250 and Jobs sold his beloved red-and white Volkswagen bus for 1,500 They put the money together and started Apple Computer Inc in 1977 Over the next 30-plus years that company would help revolutionize the com puter industry built for success
b u i l t f o r s u c c e s s 6 p a g e the story of apple chapter one Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs met in Cupertino California in the summer of 1971 They were introduced by a mu tual friend who assumed that their shared love of electronics would lead to a lasting friendship The 21-year-old Wozniak had recently dropped out of college and built his first computer which had lights that blinked in response to certain commands Jobs who was 16 had also been tinkering with technology for class projects in high school The two Steves quickly hit it off Starting that fall Wozniak and Jobs found themselves working together fre quently either trying to hawk an electronic product that one of them had de signed or dressing up as Alice in Wonderland characters to earn 3 an hour at a mall In 1973 Wozniak landed his first full-time job designing handheld calculators at Hewlett-Packard Jobs who dropped out after one semester at Reed College in Portland Oregon became employed as a technician at Atari a video-game company Although they were both using their technical expertise in their jobs Wozniak and Jobs still spent their spare time playing with electronics In 1975 they joined the new Menlo Park-based Amateur Computer Users Group also known as the Homebrew Computer Club where hobbyists demonstrated their projects and Geeks and Geniuses
Although short on formal education Steve Jobs had an abundance of ambition as a young man apple
