Dante Falconio - Steve Wozniak Timeline

Birth

Aug 11, 1950

Steve Wozniak was born. His father was a engineer for Lockheed and inspired his interest in electronics.

Built a Radio

1961

Wozniak built his own radio station and received a ham-radio license at 11 years old.

Creating the "Blue Box"

1971

Steve Wozniak designed the "Blue Box" which was a device that could allow you to have long distance phone calls without paying. Wozniak would sell a few of these to member of his old high-school.

Job at Hewlett-Packard

1975

Wozniak worked at many different electronic firms before obtaining his position with the Hewlett-Packard Company. His role was designing calculator chips for the company.

Homebrew Computer Club

Mar 5, 1975

Wozniak was one of the people to attend the first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club.

Apple Computer Company

Apr 1, 1976

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs worked together to forms the Apple Computer Company.

Apple I Computer

Apr 11, 1976

Steve Wozniak designed an 8-bit motherboard-only computer that was intended for personal use. The Apple company was initially formed to sell this product. The product launched at $666.66

Apple II Computer

Jun 10, 1977

The Apple II was the first personal computer to break into the mainstream. It included a built in keyboard and support for a color monitor. The Apple II would be succeeded by the Lisa and Macintosh models, which began to feature graphical user interfaces.

Apple Goes Public

Dec 12, 1980

The Apple company goes public at 22$ per share and turned Steve Wozniak and other employees into millionaires.

Plane Crash

Feb 7, 1981

Steve Wozniak was involved in a serious plane crash in 1981, which resulted in him temporarily suffering from short-term memory loss. While he made a full recovery, the distress caused him to step away from Apple for a while

Founded CL 9

1985

Wozniak founded the Company CL 9 and created the first programmable universal remote. The company would go on to close in 1988

National Medal of Technology

1985

After retiring from Apple in 1985, Steve Wozniak was presented with the National Medal of Technology by the U.S. president at the time, Ronald Reagan.

National Inventors Hall of Fame

2000

In 2000, Wozniak was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Wheels of Zeus

2002

Wheels of Zeus was another company founded by Wozniak that was centered around developing GPS technology. Wheels of Zeus eventually had its platformed licensed by Motorola.

Published iWoz

Sep 17, 2006

Wozniak published his autobiography "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It."

Fusion-Io

2009

Wozniak became the chief scientist at Fusion-Io in 2009 and sought to produce higher capacity solid state drives (SSDs). Fusion-Io was sold to sandisk in 2014 shortly before Wozniak left the company.