Life Of Steve Jobs By makine Apr 24, 1955 Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco. Jun 8, 1971 (Add a description) Mar 17, 1974 Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. (Add an image) Aug 6, 1976 (Add a description) May 17, 1984 Apple released the Macintosh. (Add an image) Apr 27, 1985 Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO to begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT. Feb 24, 1997 (Add a description) Sep 18, 2003 Jobs discovered that he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. (Add an image) Mar 4, 2004 He had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. (Add an image) Jul 19, 2009 (Add a description) Oct 5, 2011 (Add a description and an image)