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Steve Wozniak Timeline

By csaunders09
  • Stephen Gary Wozniak Born

    Stephen Gary Wozniak Born

    Wozniak born 8/11/1950 in San Jose, California
  • Freshman Year of College

    Freshman Year of College

    Woz attends the University of Colorado at Boulder... then he drops out after one year
  • Designs "Blue Box" w/ Steve Jobs

    Designs "Blue Box" w/ Steve Jobs

    "Blue Box" was a device used to hack into the telephone network without paying for long-distance calls
  • Lands job at Hewlett-Packard Company

    Lands job at Hewlett-Packard Company

    Wozniak formally drops out of UC Berkeley and starts working for HP
  • Homebrew Computer Club

    Homebrew Computer Club

    Woz joins the Homebrew Computer Club, a group out of San Francisco that worked with the Altair 8800 microcomputer do-it-yourself kit
  • Designs own microcomputer

    Designs own microcomputer

    While interning at HP, Wozniak designed his own microcomputer using the Intel Corporation 8080, one of the world's first microprocessors
  • Founding of "Apple Computer"

    Founding of "Apple Computer"

    Woz and Jobs found their own computer company based out of the garage of Jobs' parents
  • Release of Apple II

    Release of Apple II

    After building microcomputer circuit boards in the Jobs family garage, Woz and Jobs produce their own finished product: the Apple II
  • Apple goes public

    Apple goes public

    "Apple Computers" goes public and changes its name to "Apple, Inc."
    Market value exceeded $1 billion, making Woz and Jobs instant multimillionaires
  • PLANE CRASH

    PLANE CRASH

    Woz crashed his airplane. He sustained several injuries including traumatic amnesia, which made him unable to form new long-term memories
  • Awarded National Medal of Technology

    Awarded National Medal of Technology

    Woz and Jobs receive National Medal of Technology from President Reagan, and Woz officially retires from Apple
  • BS in electrical engineering

    BS in electrical engineering

    Berkeley awards Woz with a BS in electrical engineering after he attempted to finish his degrees in computer science and electrical engineering. Woz dropped out before finished the degrees but was later given credit for his work at Apple
  • CL 9 makes first Universal Remote Control

    CL 9 makes first Universal Remote Control

    After founding the company in 1985, CL 9 brought to market the first programmable universal remote control in 1987.
  • Publishes Autobiography

    Publishes Autobiography

    Woz publishes his autobiography: "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It"
  • National Inventors Hall of Fame

    National Inventors Hall of Fame

    Woz and Jobs inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
  • Chief Scientist at Fusion-io

    Chief Scientist at Fusion-io

    Woz becomes chief scientist at Fusion-io, who developed high-capacity, solid-state storage devices
  • Chief Scientist at Primary Data

    Chief Scientist at Primary Data

    Fusion-io sold to SanDisk resulting in Woz leaving the company to become chief scientist at Primary Data, which was involved in data visualization