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t was the tumultuous life led by Steve Jobs that enabled him to spark
revolutions in six different industries around the world such as per-
sonal computers, animation movies, music, phones, tablet computers,
digital publishing, 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 Newton to gravity law.
(Part Six)
Book
Apple Breaks into Fortune 500 after
Seven Years
Many books were published about Steve
Job including a 626 page book by Walter
Isaacson, the managing editor of Time
Magazine and the former chairman and
CEO of CNN, a book by Leander Kahn
-
ey titled “Inside Steve’s Brain” and other
publications which we summarize in a
number of consecutive parts.
8 Kilobyte
Jobs andWozniak took the stage together
for a presentation to the Homebrew Com
-
puter Club shortly after they signed Apple
into existence. Wozniak held up one of
their newly produced circuit boards and
described the microprocessor, the eight
kilobytes of memory, and the version
of BASIC. He was trying to get them to
see the amazing value of the Apple but
the audience was not very impressed.
The Apple had a cut-rate microproces-
sor, not the Intel 8080. But one important
person stayed behind to hear more. His
name was Paul Terrell, and in 1975 he
had opened a computer store, which he
dubbed the Byte Shop, on Camino Real
in Menlo Park.
