Personal life
The apple was born.
February 24th, 1955, Steve Job
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco in his early years. When he was born, his father who worked in a restaurant in San Francisco sent him to work in a bar. His free and easy mother unfortunately abandoned him and a good couple took him in. Although this is good, it is good for his adoptive parents, just like parents. When he was a student, the clever Jobs was mischievous and unscrupulous, and he often liked to make some funny pranks creatively. However, his academic performance is outstanding. At that time, the place where Jobs lived in his later years was near the famous "Silicon Valley", and his neighbors were all senators of "Silicon Valley". Staff. Under the influence of these people, Jobs was obsessed with electronics since he was a child. . . An HP engineer saw him so fascinated and recommended him to HP's Discoverer Club. This is a special gathering of young engineers, every Tuesday night in the company's restaurant. . At a party, I saw Jobs' computer for the first time, and he began to have a hazy understanding of computers. In middle school (1976), Jobs met Steve Wozniak at a class reunion. Two people from Steve Wozniak were Jobs from the school's electronics department.
The chairman of the club is very interested in electronics. At the age of 19, Jobs dropped out of school after only one semester and became an employee of a video game company. Borrow the garage of a friend's house (Woz House) and often attend the classroom courses of community colleges. 1974, mental time, eaten up-had to go back to be an engineer. After settling down, Jobs continued his interest when he was young, often playing with computers in his garage with Woz and Virginia. They dreamed of owning a computer, but at that time, everything sold in the market was commercial, and it was huge and extremely expensive, so they planned to develop it themselves. A microprocessor necessary for manufacturing personal computers. But at that time, the retail price of the 8080 chip was $270 and it was not sold to individuals. People kept searching, and finally released the 6502 chip at the 1976 San Francisco Wisconsin computer product sales meeting, with the same function as Intel's 8080, but the price was only 20 dollars. With the 6502 chip, the two young people returned to their jobs in the selfless garage and started great innovation.
They designed a circuit board, installed the 6502 microprocessor, interface and other components on it, and connected the microprocessor with the keyboard through the interface. In just a few weeks, the computer was installed. . Jobs's friends were shocked, but they didn't realize how much impact this ugly thing would have on the future world. In order to raise funds for mass production, he sold his own Volkswagen brand car and his cherished HP 65 calculator. In this way, they have a huge foundation of $ 1300. On that day, Jobs, Jobs and Woz's friend Long Wayne did something that influenced future generations: the three of them had signed a contract and decided to set up a computer company. Then, at 2 1, Steve Jobs and his 26-year-old Steve Wozniak founded Apple in their garage, and the name of the company was preferred by Steve Jobs of Apple and finally named Apple. . Later, it was this famous brand-an apple that was bitten. And their home-made computer is naturally considered by Chase as the "Apple One" computer.
Early development
But at first, the business of "Apple" machine was very light. After all, it is a new thing. Except those who are interested in electronics, who knows that this thing will have Jobs (left).
Friends who used to be interested in "Apple 1" are now holding a wait-and-see attitude, waiting for a better "Apple II" to appear. . An accidental opportunity brought a turning point for Apple. 1In July, 976, the retailer Paul Jay Terrell came to Jobs' garage. When he watched Jobs' demo computer skillfully, he firmly believed that the "Apple" machine had a bright future and was determined to take a risk-he ordered 50 complete machines, but it took a month to deliver them. Jobs was overjoyed and signed the contract immediately, which was the first one he made. Time was too short and the task was arduous. Jobs and Woz braved the heat and worked day and night, and they threw caution to the wind for the survival of the company. They are sweating like rain almost every day, struggling to finish 66 hours of work a week. Finally, in these 29 days, they miraculously completed a task, and those 50 "Apple" computers were handed over to the businessman Terrell. Steve Jobs suddenly began to realize that they had little capital to cope with the fundamental rapid development. Steve Jobs later recalled, "About the autumn of 1976, I found that the market grew faster than we thought, and we needed more money." To this end, they look for capital support alone, including the management company Hewlett-Packard, but unfortunately, these companies do not realize that this is an opportunity and market. Opportunities are often accompanied by hard-working people. 1976 10, millionaire kulakov visited Woz and their garage. Kula marsala is a well-trained electrical engineer, and he is very good at sales promotion, so he is called a sales wizard. But when I saw the new products of these two young people, I gave them to Kurada and helped them to make the company strong. He offered to help them make a business plan and give them a loan of $690,000 to link their own destination with two young people. With such professional guidance and funds, the development speed of "Apple" company is much faster. 1in April, 977, the United States opened its first computer exhibition on the west coast. In order to make a name for himself at the exhibition, Jobs ran around and spent money to get the biggest and best booth at the exhibition. Of course, the apple II prototype is even more striking. It has changed the image of personal computers that are cumbersome, complicated and difficult to operate in the past, and firmly grasped the hearts of the audience with the characteristics of being small, light, easy to operate and being used at home. It weighs only 12 pounds, and it is assembled with only 10 screws. The plastic shell is beautiful and elegant, and looks like a beautiful typewriter. People can't believe that this small machine can continuously display spectacular kaleidoscope-like colors on the big screen. At the exhibition, the "Apple II" machine was a blockbuster, and thousands of users went to the booth to exhibit, watch and try it out in order to get a quick look. All the advertisements on the page read "Apple Computer is a bicycle of 2 1 century" and are accompanied by huge photos of Jobs. 1February 12, 1980, Apple shares went public. Within an hour, all 4.6 million shares were snapped up, reaching $29 per share at the close of the day. According to the closing price, Apple has produced four billionaires and more than 40 millionaires. Steve Jobs, as the founder of the company, is of course ranked first. In 1983, Lisa database and Apple Iie were released, which were $9,998 and 1395 respectively. Apple has become the fastest growing company in history. But Lisa's article on the decline of Apple is a distortion. Even in the United States, I don't think your computer has much market, and Lisa has embezzled a lot of research and development funds from Apple. It can be said that the rise of Apple is the beginning of decline. Because of his great success, Jobs was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Reagan in 1985. However, success comes so quickly that there is a strong crisis behind too many honors. Because Jobs's business philosophy was different from that of most managers at that time, and the blue giant IBM was disillusioned, he also launched a personal computer and seized the huge market, which made Jobs's newly developed computer suffer successive fiasco. The general manager and directors gave it a failed chairman, and Jobs was decided by the board of directors to revoke his business authority at his aunt's meeting in April 1985. Steve Jobs tried several times to get back the power but failed, so he resigned as the president of Apple in anger at1September 7 1985. Steve's departure made him more aware of his mistakes, learned a lesson, and prepared for returning to Apple and saving it in the future. A few days after his resignation, Jobs set up "NeXT" computer company and continued his business trip.
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