Steve Jobs Research Paper
Family background
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco. His biological mother was an unwed graduate student (and his biological father is said to be a political science or mathematics professor, maybe of Middle-Western descent -but this has never been confirmed).
Back in the 50s, it was unconceivable for such a young woman to raise a child on her own, so she decided to put her little baby boy up for adoption. But she insisted that the adoptive parents had to be college graduates, just like she was... This was not the case of Paul and Clara Jobs, but Steve‟s biological mother finally relented to let them her child after they promised he would be sent to college.
Paul Jobs was a midwestern farmer‟s son who had settled in the Bay Area after his war service in the USCG and married Clara in 1946. The couple decided to name their adopted child Steven Paul Jobs. Steve‟s younger sister, Patty, was adopted 3 years later.
Childhood & Teenage years
Steve was very bored in school. By his own words: "I was pretty bored in school and turned into a little terror"
(Playboy Interview with David Sheff, February 1985)
But this would soon …show more content…
He decided to call it the LISA. The name that Steve chose was not innocent: it was the name he and his former girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan had picked one year earlier for the daughter he would not recognize as his own before a few more years. In December of that same year, Apple was allowed to make a visit that changed Steve‟s life and the future of computing as well. In return of the investment agreement with Xerox, a little team from Apple including Steve and a few programmers like Bill Atkinson and Rich Page, as well as the head of the Lisa Project John Couch, would be given a tour of the Xerox‟s PARC (Palo Alto Research
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco. His biological mother was an unwed graduate student (and his biological father is said to be a political science or mathematics professor, maybe of Middle-Western descent -but this has never been confirmed).
Back in the 50s, it was unconceivable for such a young woman to raise a child on her own, so she decided to put her little baby boy up for adoption. But she insisted that the adoptive parents had to be college graduates, just like she was... This was not the case of Paul and Clara Jobs, but Steve‟s biological mother finally relented to let them her child after they promised he would be sent to college.
Paul Jobs was a midwestern farmer‟s son who had settled in the Bay Area after his war service in the USCG and married Clara in 1946. The couple decided to name their adopted child Steven Paul Jobs. Steve‟s younger sister, Patty, was adopted 3 years later.
Childhood & Teenage years
Steve was very bored in school. By his own words: "I was pretty bored in school and turned into a little terror"
(Playboy Interview with David Sheff, February 1985)
But this would soon …show more content…
He decided to call it the LISA. The name that Steve chose was not innocent: it was the name he and his former girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan had picked one year earlier for the daughter he would not recognize as his own before a few more years. In December of that same year, Apple was allowed to make a visit that changed Steve‟s life and the future of computing as well. In return of the investment agreement with Xerox, a little team from Apple including Steve and a few programmers like Bill Atkinson and Rich Page, as well as the head of the Lisa Project John Couch, would be given a tour of the Xerox‟s PARC (Palo Alto Research