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Steve was born on this day
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1972: Jobs enrolls in Reed College in Portland, Ore., but drops out after a semester.
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1974: Jobs works for Atari and attends meetings of a computer club with Steve Wozniak, a high school friend.
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1976: Apple Computer is formed on April Fool's Day, shortly after Wozniak and Jobs create a new computer circuit board in a Silicon Valley garage. The Apple I computer goes on sale for $666.66.
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Apple is incorporated by its founders and venture capitalists. It unveils Apple II, the first personal computer to generate color graphics. Sales soar to the rate of $1 million a year.
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1980: Apple goes public, raising $110 million in one of the biggest initial public offerings to date. By 1982, annual sales climb to $1 billion.
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1983: The Lisa computer goes on sale, only to be pulled two years later. Jobs lures John Sculley from PepsiCo Inc. to be Apple's CEO.
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"1984" Macintosh commercial directed by Ridley Scott is shown during the Super Bowl. The Macintosh goes on sale.
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Jobs and Sculley clash, leading to Jobs' resignation. Wozniak also resigns.
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Jobs founds computer company NeXT Inc. and buys Pixar from George Lucas for $10 million.
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First NeXT computer goes on sale for $6,500.
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Steve died on this day