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Origins of the Apple Computer Company Essay

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Did you know that the Apple computer started in someone’s garage? Many people do not know how it all started. Today, Apple Computer Incorporated, formerly known as Apple Computer Company, dominates the technological industry with Mac, iPod, and iPhone sales. Apple had its best ever quarterly revenue of $1.58 billion dollars in 2008 (“Best Quarterly Revenue” n.pag.). The brilliant minds of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs led to the inventions of the Apple I and Apple II computers, which revolutionized the computer industry of the 1970s and 1980s.
It all started with Steve Wozniak, the kind of person who liked to tell jokes and pull pranks at the schools he attended. During high school, he decided he wanted to become an engineer. He …show more content…

Steve “programmed, designed, and tested diagnostics that went to various input and output devices, like printers” (Kendall 17). During his time there, he shared his ideas about computer projects with other workers. He acquired computer chips from these workers that he would not have been able to get otherwise. Telnet was not successful at selling its computer, so it closed in 1970 (Kendall 17). However, his love and dedication towards computers would lead to the development of the first Apple computer. In 1971, Steve and his friend Bill Hernandez designed a pretty good computer and his mother was impressed. She contacted a local newspaper company to do a report on it. They were very excited to explain the operation and specs to the reporter, but that is not how it happened. When the reporter came to see the computer, they started the computer up and the blinking lights came on. After that, someone stepped on the power cord, which caused the computer to start smoking, and then stopped working. The reporter quickly left and only wrote a small article on their computer (Kendall 18). Steve decided it was time to choose a school based on its engineering program. He chose to go to the University of California at Berkeley, because it was one of the best (Kendall 19). This is where he met the most important friend, Steve Jobs. He was “five years younger than Wozniak and still attending Homestead High School” (Kendall 20). They had many

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