Steve Jobs:
Worked at HP factory at the age of 15
(Part Three)
It is the tumultuous life led by Steve Jobs that has enabled him to spark
revolutions in six different industries around the world such as personal
computers, animation movies, music, phones, tablet computers, digital pub-
lishing, as well as the revolution he caused in the application-based digital
content market. Therefore, we may consider his apple, the logo of Apple Inc.,
to be the third apple to change the world after Adam’s and that which led New-
ton to gravity law. In a 626 page book, Walter Isaacson, the managing editor
of Time Magazine and the former chairman and CEO of CNN, writes Steve Jobs’
biography, which we summarize in a number of consecutive parts.
Steve Jobs’ membership in Hewlett-
Packard Explorers Club gave him
the chance to participate in some
projects. Despite his young age, he
decided to build a frequency counter,
which measures the number of puls-
es per second in an electronic signal.
He needed some parts that HPmade.
He called the CEO who chatted with
him for 20 minutes, got him the parts
and a job in the factory where they
made frequency counters. Jobs
worked there after his freshman year
at Homestead High. His work was to
put nuts and bolts on things on the
assembly line. Jobs liked to work. He
also delivered newspaper and during
his sophomore year and spent week-
ends as a stock clerk at an old elec-
tronics store.
Jobs bought his first car, with his fa
-
Book
Worked as a
newspaper
delivery boy
during holidays
