Who is Steve Wozniak? Biography

Steve Wozniak

Stephen Gary Wozniak is a technology entrepreneur, Businessman, inventor, and computer programmer. He is the co-founder of apple.Inc. He was born on August 11 1950 San Jose, California, US. He was born into a wealthy family because his father was an engineer. So get a chance to attend a good university. In 1968 he graduated from Homestead High School, in Cupertino, California. In his college life, he starts to get serious about coding, programming, and computer engineering. In 1969 he goes to study at the University of California, Berkeley and he hacked the whole server system of the university. Because of that, he got suspended in his first year. And he returns to the san Francisco bay area.

In 1971 he joined De Anza College Cupertino before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley. After that Wozniak designed or built his own design of computer with his friend Bill Fernandez. He named it Cream soda. Before that, he was employed at Hp(Hewlett-Packard) where is made a design for calculators and that period of time he meet steve jobs and they became friends and they were both working on the mainframe computer. Wozniak saw a news article that the more demand for a blue box that can make a call for shorts distance in an easy way so he started to build it and jobs sell it for around $150 and then split it up. Then they both worked on it and made the coinless telephone that became a huge success and started to work on computers and first introduced the Apple-I market. With that design, the member of their group is interested in their project and again launched another Apple II. After that their growth never falls. they start to work on design and size, ram, hardware, etc which helps to create a modern Apple company. In 1978 he also designed a disk, floppy disk drive for Apple to replace cascade tape storage.

After that apple company entirely focused on GUI which is a game changer for them.

In 1980 Apple went public and many common people were also able to buy a personal computer that made both (steve jobs and steve Wozniak) Millionaires.

On February 7, 1981, he got into an airplane crash and got heavily injured he got a step down from apple and Jobs took all the projects.

After 2 years he started a new company and create Universal Remote which makes computers programmable. when steve got through the accident jobs take over the company and now Wozniak is a partner employee.

Full name: Stephen Gary Wozniak

Born: August 11, 1950, San Jose, California, U.S.

Education: the University of Colorado, Boulder (expelled) University of California, Berkeley (BSE, 1986) Occupation: Electronics engineer, Entrepreneur. Programmer. Philanthropist

Years active: 1971–present

Known for: Co-founder of Apple Inc.

Spouses:

Alice Robertson (m. 1976⁠–⁠1980)