She taught an advanced fourth grade class, and it took her about a month to get hip to my situation. She bribed me into learning. She did bribe him, with candy and $5 bills from her own money. He quickly became hooked -” so much so that he skipped the 5th grade and went straight to middle school, namely Christened Middle School. It was in a poor area. Most kids did not work much there, they were rather fond of bullying other kids, such as the young Steve. One day he came home and declared that if he wasn’t transferred to another school, he would stop going to school altogether.
He was 11. Paul and Clara complied, and the Jobs moved to the cozier city of Los Altos, so that Steve could go to Cupertino Junior High. This proved to be decisive for Stave’s future. In elementary school Steve was bored, and he often played pranks. In fourth grade, he was tested and scored on a high- school sophomore level. He went to Reed College in Oregon, but dropped out after six months. He stayed at Reed and went to some classes that interested him, slept on the floors of friends’ rooms, and got meals at a Hare Krishna temple.
He later became a Buddhist. Calligraphy was one class that he enjoyed, and he said that it influenced his interest in design and the use of elegant fonts on Apple computers. As Steve was growing up in Los Altos, he became increasingly curious about the world of electronics that filled his neighbors’ garages. His own father introduced him to Heathenish, which fascinated him: These Heathenish would come with these detailed manuals about how to put this thing together and all the parts would be laid out in a certain way and color coded.
You’d actually build this thing yourself. I would say that this gave one several things. It gave one a understanding of what was inside a finished product and how it worked because it would include a theory of operation but maybe even more importantly it gave one the sense that one could build the things that one saw around oneself in the universe. These things were not mysteries anymore. Mean you looked at a television set you would think that “I haven’t built one of those but I could.
There’s one of those in the Heath kit catalog and I’ve built two other Heathenish so I could build that. ” Things became much more clear that they were the results of human creation to these magical things that just appeared in one’s environment that one had no knowledge of their interiors. It gave a tremendous level of self- confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in ones environment. My childhood was very fortunate in that way. When Steve arrived in Homestead High School, he enrolled in a popular electronics class.
McCollum later recalled of one time when his pupil Steve called up Bill Hewlett himself, co-founder of HP, to get spare parts for his homework, and even a summer job at Hap’s factory. Stave’s entrepreneurial skills showed up early in his life indeed. At Homestead, Steve befriended Bill Fernando, a neighbor who shared his interests in electronics. It was Bill who first introduced him to another computer whiz kid, an older guy named Stephen Woozier, or -” as everybody used to call him -” Wok. Steve and Wok met in 1 969, when they were respectively 14 and 19.
At the time, Wok was building a little computer board with Bill Fernando that they called “the Cream Soda Computer”. Wok showed it to Steve, who seemed quite interested. Describing the first computer terminal he saw, Steve said. ” fell totally in love with it. ” Mr… McCollum Electronics 1 class. Steve is well recognizable in the middle The following year, Steve finished high school and reached college age. He decided to go to the fancy Reed College, a private liberal arts college up in Oregon. However, the tuition for Reed was so expensive that Paul and Clara could hardly afford it.
Yet they were bound by the promise they’d make to their son’s biological mother, so they spent almost their entire life’s savings on their son’s higher education. Steve only officially stayed for a couple of months at Reed. He dropped out before Christmas. However, that allowed him to “drop in” on classes he was not supposed to attend. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. Had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.
So decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out K. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the C deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.
In 1 970, he was introduced to Steve Woozier by a mutual friend. Even though Woozier was five years older, they shared a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, ND practical jokes. Together they created the Apple and Apple II computers. Woozier was responsible for the electronics, and Steve concentrated on the design. The Apple II was the first personal computer capable of color graphics. Jobs insisted that Apple design both the software and hardware on Apple products. Apple’s first logo had a picture of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. Next came the rainbow, striped apple with a bite taken out on the side.
The colored stripes represented the fact that the Apple II could create graphics in color. In 1997, it was simplified to a single color that has changed over time. In the early sass, Steve visited Xerox PARA. He noticed desktop icons on their computer screens. Most computers at this time used a text-only interface. Steve made an arrangement with Xerox so he could use their idea of a graphical user interface. He improved it a so computers would be more user-friendly. In 1 984, the Macintosh computer was launched with a famous commercial at the Superpower. Steve said, “In 1984, Apple introduced the first Macintosh.
It didn’t just change Apple. It changed the whole computer industry. In 2001, we introduced the first pod. It didn’t just change the way we all listen to music. It changed the entire music industry. ” In 1986, he bought the computer graphics division of Localism and started Paxar Animation Studios. Jobs let the animators continue to create the stories, but insisted on attention to detail and design. Steve has been described as brilliant, abrasive, self-centered, a perfectionist and temperamental. He was a technologist and a businessman, but he was also an artist and designer.
