Steve Jobs

Everyone knows the stunning achievements of Steven John Work, said Bob Work ? Each time when he offers so long (for health reasons) towards Apple organization, see what he has to the history of processing ...

Born in California February 24, 1955, Steve Jobs was adopted soon after birth. He crosses paths computers at the age of 19, a computer club in Silicon Valley that was causing the PC, the " Homebrew Computer Club . " There he met Steve Wozniak, with whom he will commit in the video game publisher Atari.

He created the company " Apple "1 st April 1976 with his friend Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne. The company has the name " apple "to the fact that Steve Jobs is a vegetarian, and" Macintosh "in this variety of apple that he collected some money to be made ​​before building computers! The choice of the logo, the " bitten apple "is the first symbol of logic used in the strategy of Steve Jobs, that of a diet which was imposed at the time of this choice!

Young entrepreneurs install in the garage of Steve Jobs. There he built his first PC, the "Apple I". Made 200 copies and priced at $ 666, this is the first computer sold with a full menu, although you have to add a case, power supply, keyboard, and screen ... The keyboard and the distinguish the particular screen machines of the time programmed for use with switches and flashing lights for display. Steve Jobs had already considered the "ease of use" as a criterion for making his first computer!
For the record, the Apple I, was a MOS Technology 6502 processor running at 8-bit 1 MHz, the memory was 8 KB, expandable to 64 KB ROM and 256 bytes of a display of 40 x 24 characters.

Only four years later, Apple goes public, making its young patrons millionaire, well before the era of start-up in IT! Building on this success, in 1982 Apple released Lisa. This is the first PC is provided with a graphic user interface (windows and icons) for convenience of use, and of a computer mouse ! For the release of Lisa, Steve Jobs had acquired from Xerox patents untapped: those of the mouse and a graphical interface. Once again, Apple's CEO was put in the place of the user to design his new machine ...