Apple

​ Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He grew up with one sister, Patty. Paul Jobs was a machinist and fixed carsas a hobby. Jobs remembers his father as being very skilled at working with his hands. He graduating from high school in 1972, and attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, for two yearsand he dropped out after one semester to visit India and study eastern religions in the summer of 1974. In 1975 Jobs joined a group known as the Homebrew Computer Club. One member, atechnical whiz named Steve Wozniak, was trying to build a small computer. Jobs became fascinated with the marketing potential of such a computer. In 1976 he and Wozniak formed their own company.They called it Apple Computer Company, in memory of a happy summer Jobs had spent picking apples. They raised $1,300 million in startup money by selling Jobs's microbus and Wozniak'scalculator. At first they sold circuit boards (the boards that hold the internal components of a computer) while they worked on the computer prototype.
​ Apple Computer fue fundada en 1976por Steve Wozniak (24 años) y Steve Jobs (20 años) en el garaje de sus padres. Su primer producto, el Apple I, era un juego de ordenador personal, diseñado y construido a mano por SteveWozniak. En 1979, Apple Computer lanzó su segundo producto, el Apple II. Equipado con gráficos en color y una arquitectura abierta. Apple quería borrar la percepción ​Al crear Apple II, estacompañía logro hacer de su empresa algo más grande dándole un valor de 3 billones de dólares. En diciembre de 1980, Apple Computer comenzó a cotizar, lo que resultó en un valor de mercadototal de más de $ 1 billón de dólares. Durante los cuatro años posteriores, Apple Computer desarrolló varios modelos de PC - el Apple III, Apple II, Lisa, Apple IIc, y así sucesivamente.