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Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco on 24th February 1955. After birth he was adopted by Paul Reinhold Jobs. Then later Paul Reinhold Jobs adopted a girl.
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Jobs started attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club. He was admired by Edwin H. Land the inventor of instant photography and creator of Polaroid Coroporation.
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Jobs met Steve Wozinak in 1971 by their friend Bill Fernandez. In 1976 Wozinak made the Apple 1 computer. Another person named Ronald Wayne, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozinak were in Jobs parents garage trying to sell the computer.
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After he left Apple Steve founded NeXt Computer . The next year Jobs was running out of money! A billionaire Ross Perot helped NeXt. The first NeXt workstation opened in 1990 and it was technologically advanced.
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In 1986 Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million. The first movie the produced was Toy Story. n the years 2003 and 2004, as Pixar's contract with Disney was running out, Jobs and the Disney chief executive Michael Eisner tried but failed to negotiate a new partnership. In early 2004, Jobs announced that Pixar would seek a new partner to distribute its films after its contract with Disney expired.
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In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for $429 million, bringing Jobs back to the company he co-founded. In August 2011, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained with the company as chairman of the company's board.
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In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with cancer,and in mid-2004, he announced to his employees that he had a cancerous tumor in his pancreas.
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Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011.
