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Birth
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College
Steve Wozniak originally attended The University of Colorado as a freshman, but shortly dropped out due to the cost. -
Homebrew
Started attending the Homebrew Club -
Steve Jobs
While at the Homebrew club Wozniak became good friends with Steve Jobs -
Marriage
Wozniak's first marriage was to Alice Robertson. -
Apple I
Wozniak completed the basic design of the Apple I computer. He alone designed the hardware, circuit board designs, and operating system for the computer. Wozniak originally offered the design to HP while working there, but was denied by the company on five occasions. -
Creation of Apple
While working in Steve Jobs' garage, Jobs and Wozniak made their first official creation under their new company Apple -
Apple II
Wozniak and Jobs introduced the Apple II in 1977, one of the first successful mass-produced microcomputer products. -
Plane Crash
The Beechcraft Bonanza A36TC which Wozniak was piloting crashed soon after takeoff from the Sky Park Airport in Scotts Valley, California. Wozniak sustained severe face and head injuries, including losing a tooth, and also suffered for the following five weeks from anterograde amnesia. -
UC Berkeley
Wozniak re-enrolled at UC Berkeley to complete his Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences degree under an fake name: Rocky Raccoon Clark -
Macintosh
Wozniak had returned to the Apple II development section of the company where they started working on a new computer that would be cheaper and would be more advanced than the Apple II with drop down menus, a cursor for a mouse, and pictures. -
Leaving Apple
Wozniak believed that the company was hindering him from being who he wanted to be, and that it was "the bane of his existence" and later left the company. -
CL 9
Wozniak founded CL 9, which developed and brought the first programmable universal remote control to market in 1987, called the "CORE". -
Award
Wozniak was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. -
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Current day
Wozniak is still in the technology business working at a company called, Primary Data. The companies specializes in data management and IT infrastructure. In Nov, 2023 Steve suffered from a minor stroke, but recovered quickly -
Autobiography
Wozniak publishes an autobiography called “iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It”