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Born Feb. 24 in San Francisco to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali.
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Adopted from infancy by Paul and Clara Jobs in San Francisco. Moves to Mountain View, California, five months later
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Offered a summer job at Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) by William Hewlett.
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Meets Steve Wozniak; the two later found Apple Computer Inc.
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Graduates from Homestead High School in Los Altos.
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Registers at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, and drops out after one semester.
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Joins Atari Inc. as a technician.
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Starts attending meetings of the "Homebrew Computer Club," which discussed home computers.
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Jobs and Wozniak raise $1,750 and build their first marketable table-top computer, the Apple I.
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Founds Apple Computer Company with Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. Wayne sells his stake two weeks later.