A presentation made by ICE-PPBA students

1. Steve Jobs

2. Steven Paul Jobs
• Born in 1955 in Green Bay,
Wisconsin
• Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs
to live in Santa Clara, California
• Graduated high school in
Cupertino, California
• co-founder and chief executive
officer of Apple
• Net worth $6.1 billion (2010)

3. Education
• Jobs went to Reed College
in Portland Oregon
• He studied Poetry,
Literature, and Physics
• After one semester, Jobs
dropped out of school, but
still attended some classes

4. Steves
• Jobs met Steve Wozniak shortly after they
both left school while working for Hewlett-
Packard
• “Woz” was an incredibly talented engineer,
especially in electronic gadgets
• While developing a “blue box” device, Jobs
convinced Woz to sell it to Berkeley
students.

5. The Beginnings of Apple
• After spending time in India in 1974, Jobs
returned to America
• He visited with Woz the homebrew computer
club, but was not content with just the
creation of electronics.

6. The Beginnings of Apple
• Jobs convinced Woz to help him create a
personal computer, the Apple I
• Jobs, with marketing help from a friend, had the
vision of creating a computer company that
would make and sell pc’s.
• After showing the Apple I to in town computer
stores, Jobs was able to sell 25.
• After selling his Volkswagon mini-bus, and
asking Woz to sell his scientific calculator, the
two raised enough money to create Apple
Computers.

8. Apple I
Release date : July 1976
Introductory price : US$666.66
CPU : MOS 6502 @ 1 MHz
Memory : 4 KB standard, expandable to 8 KB or 48 KB
using expansion cards
Graphics : 40×24 characters hardware-implemented
scrolling

9. Apple
• Jobs and Woz sold the Apple
I in 1976 for $666, making
over $776,000 from sales
• In 1977, the two released the
Apple II, a single board
computer with onboard ROM
and a color video interface.

10. The Macintosh
• In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh,
the first personal computer with a
graphical user interface.
• It had 128K of memory, and was
expandable.
• Along with the mouse, the Macintosh
was the most revolutionary computer
made up to that point.

11. The Second Coming of Jobs
• In 1996, Apple bought
NeXT, and with it
came Steve Jobs.
• In 2000, Jobs became
the full CEO of Apple,
after the success of
the iMac, the first
computer mainly
marketed for its looks.

12. Return to Profitability and
Innovation
• Jobs continues to innovate the
computer industry,
spearheading projects like the
iPod, iTunes and its Music
Store, and high end computer
• Under Jobs’ watch, Apple has
entered a new phase of
growth and profitability, fueled
by his imagination and quest
for perfection

14. Question?

15. Sources
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
• http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Jobs.html
• Apple.com