Steve Wozniak

Steve Gray ‘Woz’ Wozniak was born on August 11, 1950. He co- founded Apple Inc. with Steve jobs and Ronald Wayne. He worked as an American computer engineer. He has contributed his inventions and machines significantly for the revolution of personal computers in the 1970s. The Apple I and Apple II were created by Wozniak in the mid- 1970s. The story of the invention of the Apple is very interesting. Steve Wozniak and his friend Steve jobs, whom he met at a summer job where both were working for a mainframe computer, had an intense possession for making and selling the computer as fully assembled Printed Circuit Board (PCB). For this Wozniak even left his job and worked on his dream project with Jobs. Together they sold some of their possessions (such as Wozniak's HP scientific calculator and Jobs's Volkswagen van), raised USD $1,300, and assembled the first prototypes Wozniak often carried electronic devices with him, and would entertain party goers with novel devices. For this Wozniak even left his job and worked on his dream project with Jobs. Finally, on April 1, 1976, they formed their first Apple computer and priced it at $ 666.66 and got their first order of 50 computers from Paul Tarrel. Soon Wozniak had an aircraft accident while he was taking off from Santa Cruz Sky Park and suffered from retrograde amnesia and temporary anterograde amnesia. He didn’t remember the accident and forgot all that happened to him.  His girlfriend Candice Clark, who was an early Apple employee who worked in the accounting department, helped him to recover all his memories. When his girlfriend told him about the event, his short-term memory was restored; Wozniak also credited Apple II computer games for aiding him in restoring those lost memories. Clark and Wozniak were engaged later that year. After having recovered from the crash, Wozniak did not immediately joined Apple. Instead, he married his girlfriend, Candice Clark, and returned to US Berkeley under the name “Rock Raccoon Clark”, after his dog’s (Rocky) and wife’s (Clark) name, finally earning his undergraduate degree in 1986. Wozniak decided to join Apple in 1986.   Wozniak wanted to be a part of Apple but not as an engineer or motivated factor of the Apple. He joined Apple as an employee after 12 years of creating the Apple. He is still an employee and one of the shareholders of the company and has good terms with Steve Jobs.

             

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