Steve Jobs Bio
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Youth The Apple I Apple’s early days Success and failures Macintosh Steve leaves Apple NeXT Inc. The NeXT Cube Getting real Wilderness years Saved by toys The return to Apple A true visionary The iPod revolution Apple is strong Steve and the Magic Kingdom Difficult times 2010: Steve is back. Again.
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Youth
The Jobs family
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco. His biological mother was an unwed graduate student named Joanne Simpson, and his biological father was either a political science or mathematics professor, a native Syrian named Abdulfattah John Jandali. Being born out of wedlock in the puritan America of the 1950s, the baby was put up for adoption. Joanne had a college education, and she insisted that the future parents of her boy be just as well educated. Unfortunately, the candidates, Paul and Clara Jobs, did not meet her expectations: they were a lower-middle class couple that had settled in the Bay Area after the war. Paul was a machinist from the Midwest who had not even graduated from high school. In the end, Joanne agreed to have her baby adopted by them, under the firm condition that they later send him to college. Paul and Clara called their new son Steven Paul. While Steve was still a toddler, the couple moved to the Santa Clara county, later to be known as Silicon Valley. They adopted another baby, a girl called Patti, three years later in 1958.
Childhood
Steve was quite a turbulent child. He really didn’t care about school for some time — until he reached the 4th grade, and had Imogene “Teddy” Hill as a teacher. She was
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all about Steve Jobs.com
Steve Jobs a biography by Romain Moisescot
Table of Contents
(clickable links) Page
Youth The Apple I Apple’s early days Success and failures Macintosh Steve leaves Apple NeXT Inc. The NeXT Cube Getting real Wilderness years Saved by toys The return to Apple A true visionary The iPod revolution Apple is strong Steve and the Magic Kingdom Difficult times 2010: Steve is back. Again.
2 6 9 11 16 20 23 26 29 33 36 39 47 52 55 58 64 70
© Copyright Romain Moisescot, 2010. All rights reserved.
all about Steve Jobs.com
Steve Jobs: a biography by Romain Moisescot - 2 / 74
Youth
The Jobs family
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco. His biological mother was an unwed graduate student named Joanne Simpson, and his biological father was either a political science or mathematics professor, a native Syrian named Abdulfattah John Jandali. Being born out of wedlock in the puritan America of the 1950s, the baby was put up for adoption. Joanne had a college education, and she insisted that the future parents of her boy be just as well educated. Unfortunately, the candidates, Paul and Clara Jobs, did not meet her expectations: they were a lower-middle class couple that had settled in the Bay Area after the war. Paul was a machinist from the Midwest who had not even graduated from high school. In the end, Joanne agreed to have her baby adopted by them, under the firm condition that they later send him to college. Paul and Clara called their new son Steven Paul. While Steve was still a toddler, the couple moved to the Santa Clara county, later to be known as Silicon Valley. They adopted another baby, a girl called Patti, three years later in 1958.
Childhood
Steve was quite a turbulent child. He really didn’t care about school for some time — until he reached the 4th grade, and had Imogene “Teddy” Hill as a teacher. She was