Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. From his troubled childhood to his great success in life, he never gave up. He got this success by working with his family, friends, and people he trusted. He went to Reed College in Oregon, but dropped out after six months. Later on, he came back. Then, he became a Buddhist. Describing the first computer terminal he saw, he said,''I fell totally in love with it.'' He took a stand and that stand changed the way we look at electronics. He died at October 5, 2011 because of pancreatic cancer.
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 to a pair of graduate students who gave him up for adoption because they didn't want to marry each other. Steve was adopted at birth by Clara and Paul Jobs. His mother taught him to read before he went to school. Steve and his father would work on electronics in the family garage, taking apart and reassembling television, radios, and stereos.
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Even though Wozniak was five years older than him, they shared a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and practical jokes. Together, they created the Apple 1 and Apple 2 computers. Steve Wozniak was responsible for the electronics and Steve Jobs concentrated on the design. The Apple 2 was the first personal computer that was capable of color graphics. Jobs insisted that Apple should design both the software and hardware on the Apple products. Apple's first logo had a picture of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. Next came the rainbow striped apple with a bite taken out of the side. The color stripes represented the fact that the Apple 2 could create graphics in color. Then, in 1997, it was simplified to a single color that had changed over