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| San Francisco | Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of |
| Paul and Clara Jobs | 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. |
| adoption | Being born out of wedlock in the puritan America of the 1950s, the baby was put up for |
| Silicon Valley | Paul and Clara called their son Steven Paul. While Steve was still a toddler, the couple moved to the Santa Clara county, later to be known as |
| electronics | As Steve was growing up in Los Altos, he became increasingly curious about the world of |
| job at HP’s factory. | 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 |
| Steve and Woz | met in 1969, when they were respectively 14 and 19. |
| AT&T’s long-distance switching equipment | Woz and Steve started their first entrepreneurial venture. It was 1972, and on US campuses, there was a lot of talk about “phone phreaks.” They were early computer hackers that managed to build “blue boxes” — little devices that fooled_____________________________and allowed you to make phone calls for free. |
| Reed College | Steve finished high school and reached college age. He decided to go to the fancy |
| 5¢ deposits to buy food with | It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the________________________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. |
| apples | the All-One Farm. Here they would cultivate___________and for some time, Steve would eat only that — when he wasn’t fasting, that is. |
| Homebrew Computer Club. | in his spare time, he had cultivated his interest in designing computer circuits, and had joined a computer hobbyists association called the |
| we’ll have a company | Steve had a good argument. We were in his car and he said — and I can remember him saying this like it was yesterday: “Well, even if we lose money, |
