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Steven is born. Then he is adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs.
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Steve spends one semester at Reed College in Portland (Oregon), but he drops out after a semester.
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Steve Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak start assembling computers in the Jobs' garage. They sell 200 units. Steve called them Apple I.
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The Apple II becomes the first mass-market personal computer. It´s the first computer to have colour interface.
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Apple goes public, raising $110 million in one of the biggest initial public offerings (IPO) to date.
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Annual sales climb to $1 billion.
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Steve introduces the Macintosh.
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Apple III, Lisa and the Macintosh don´t have success.
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Steve leaves Apple due to differences with its president. Wozniak also resigns from Apple.
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Jobs founds Next Inc., a new computer company making high-end machines for universities. He also buys ILM from George Lucas for $10 million and changes the name to Pixar Animation Studios.
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Jobs introduces Apple´s revolutionary iMac.
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First Next computer goes on sale.
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Apple and IBM Corp. annonce an alliance to develop new PC microprocessors and software. Apple unveils PowerBook portable Macintoshes.
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Steve signs an agreement with Disney to produce films. Pixar´s “Toy Story”, the first commercial computer-animated feature, hits theaters and Pixar goes to Wall Street with an IPO that raises $140 million.
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Apple buys Next Computer for $430 million. With this, Steve rejoins Apple as an adviser.
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Jobs is named CEO of Apple.
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The first iPod goes on sale.
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Apple launches the iTunes music store with 200.000 songs at 99 cents each, giving people a convenient way to buy music legally online. It sells 1 million songs in the first week.
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Apple expands the iPod line with the tiny Nano and an iPod that can play video.
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Disney buys Pixar for $7,4 billion. Steve becomes Disney´s largest individual shareholder with 7% of the company.
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Apple releases its first smartphone, the iPhone
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Steve unveils iPad, the much-anticipated Apple´s modern touch-screen tablet computer. Apple sells 15 million iPads in nine months.
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Steve resigns from Apple
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Jobs dies after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
