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Steven Paul is born in San Francisco, CA, soon to be adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.
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Steve Jobs - 2011
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The Jobs family moves to the center of the growing Silicon Valley in Palo Alto.
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Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak.
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Steve spends one semester at Reed College, Oregon, then drops out.
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Steve gets a job at Atari.
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Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobs' garage, and sell them to computer hobbyists.
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Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne.
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The Apple II becomes the first mass-market personal computer, a huge hit all around the US.
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IBM launches the IBM PC, the biggest threat to Apple's future.
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Steve ends up on the cover of Time Magazine.
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Macintosh is launched at Apple’s annual shareholder meeting.
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Steve Jobs resigns from Apple. Apple announces it will sue Steve's future company, NeXT.
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Steve, now CEO of Pixar, signs a deal with Disney to make a computer-animated feature film.
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Apple buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs returns as CEO of Apple.
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Steve Jobs unveils the first iPod.
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Apple opens the online iTunes Music Store in the US.
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Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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Steve Jobs introduces the MacBook Pro.
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Apple Computer becomes Apple Inc.
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iPhone is released in the US.
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Steve Jobs introduces the world’s thinnest notebook, the MacBook Air.
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Steve has surgery for a liver transplant.
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teve Jobs unveils iPad, the much-anticipated Apple tablet.
