steve jobs By cs5124 1969 Steve jobs meets Steve Wozniak 1976 Apple is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne. 1976 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak show off their first product at the Personal Computing Festival 1976 Jobs and Wozniak start assembling the Apple I computers in the Jobses' garage 1978 The Apple II becomes the first mass-market personal computer 1980 Apple launched the Apple III, which was not a good selling product at all 1983 John Sculley becomes Apple's CEO 1985 Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple. 1986 Jobs buys the computer division of George Lucas' ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar. 1991 Pixar signs a deal with Disney to make a computer-animated feature film.