Steve Job History and Background

Steve Jobs: History and Background

Steven Paul, was an orphan adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California in February 1955. Soon after the family moved to Los Altos, California where teachers remember Steve Jobs as a “loner” and “always had a different way of looking at things”. Jobs attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard electronics firm in Palo Alto, California, where he was soon hired as a summer employee. While working their as a summer intern, Jobs met Stephen Wozniak.

In 1972 Jobs graduated high school and started taking philosophy classes at Reed College in Portland. In 1974 Jobs took a job as a video game designer at

Atari, Inc., where he saved enough money to adventure on a trip to India. He traveled to India in search of spiritual enlightenment. When he returned to California, he began attending meeting of Wozniak’s “Homebrew Computer Club”. Job’s was not interested in creating electronics and was nowhere near as good an engineer as Wozniak, but he had his eye on marketability of electronic products and persuaded Wozniak to work with him toward building a personal computer.

Jobs and Wozniak designed the Apple I computer in Job’s bedroom and they built the prototype in the Job’s garage.