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Steven P. Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California.
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Steve meets Steve Woziniak.
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Steve spends one semester at Reed Collate, Oregon then drops out.
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Steve and Woz start making Apple I computers in the Jobs’ garage.
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Steve and Woz show the early Apple I board at the Homebrew Computer club. In April, Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Woziniak and Ron Wayne.
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Mike Markkula invests in Apple and Woz is forced to leave. Apple makes a huge sensation at the West Coast Computer Faire with the prototype of the Apple II
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Apple III is launched and then increases Steve Jobs net worth to over $200 million.
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The Lisa computer (named after daughter born in 1978) goes on sale but is pulled out 2 years later.
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Steve quits his job at Apple and says will sue Steve’s new job the NeXT.
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Job buys a division of ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar.
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Ross Perot invests $20 million in NeXT making it worth $ 125 million.
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The first NeXT computer goes on sale.
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Apple and IBM Corp. unveil the portable Mac called the PowerBook.
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Apple shows the Power Macintosh.
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Steve Jobs is CEO at Apple again.
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Apple comes out with the candy colored iMac desktop.
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The first iPod comes out and iTunes software is introduced.
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Apple announces the iTunes music store.
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Jobs has surgery for his cancer.
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Apple adds the iPod Nano and an iPod that can play videos.
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Jobs join Disney board because Disney buys Pixar for $7.4 billion.
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The iPhone is released. Jobs is inducted in the California Hall of fame.
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Steve takes a leave of absence for six months for medical purposes.
Steve has liver transplant. -
Steve Jobs reveals the iPad. Apple sells 15 million.
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Job dies at the age of 56.