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Wozniak was born in San Jose, California.
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He attended the University of Colorado and later flunked out. He then went back to school at the University of California.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created a bond between themselves and later founded Apple Computers in 1976.
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Wozniak invented the Apple II Computer in 1977 and quit his day job.
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Wozniak created a floppy disk system for the Apple II to replace the cassette tape used by personal computers and wrote the program for the software.
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In 1980, Apple went public with its stock value standing at US $ 117 million.
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He left Apple temporarily in 1981 to complete his education and returned a few years later.
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In February of 1981, he narrowly escaped death as he met with an unfortunate accident as he was piloting a plane on a runway which crashed. It took him two years to fully recover from the incident.
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Wozniak went on to conceive the Apple II as part of the company's personal-computer series, and by 1983, Apple had a stock value of $985 million.
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He resigned from Apple in 1985 to begin another company
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In 1990 he joined Mitchell Kapor in establishing the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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In 1997, he served as a member of Apple's executive committee and advisor to the chairman.
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Wozniak also founded Wheels of Zeus (WoZ) in 2002, a venture started with the aim of developing wireless GPS technology.
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Wozniak published his autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It.
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In 2008, he joined the Salt Lake City-based start-up Fusion-io as its chief scientist.
