BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Steve Jobs
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Bill Gates
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Jeff Bezos
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Donald Trump
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Detailed explanation-1: -Steve Jobs was a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era. With Steve Wozniak, Jobs founded Apple Inc. in 1976 and transformed the company into a world leader in telecommunications. Widely considered a visionary and a genius, he oversaw the launch of such revolutionary products as the iPod and the iPhone.
Detailed explanation-2: -Apple Computers, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. Jobs and Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes or offices.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was inspired by an article titled “Secrets of the Little Blue Box” from the October 1971 issue of Esquire. Jobs decided then to sell them and split the profit with Wozniak.
Detailed explanation-4: -He kept only one share. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple after 1997, he received some Apple shares over the years. Shortly before his death, Steve Jobs’s Apple ownership was 0.6%. It was not a significant stake but was still worth nearly $2 billion at the time.
Detailed explanation-5: -Jobs began to move mountains at age 21 when he and Wozniak started Apple Computers in the Jobs family garage.