Homebrew Computer Club

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Steve Jobs (1955-2011) helped revolutionize the personal computer industry, creating the innovative Macintosh computer and developing Apple Computer, Inc., into a multibillion dollar company. Steve Jobs was born in 1955. Orphaned as an infant, he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, and grew up in the California suburbs of Mountain View and Los Altos, which would later become the heart of Silicon Valley. While in high school, Jobs was hired as a summer employee at the Hewlett-Packard electronics

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Introduction According to USA Today, more than 55 million homes with at least one iPhone, iPad, iPod or Mac computer. 1-in-10 homes that aren 't currently in that group plan to join it in the next year. With the popularity of Apple rising, many of us have read, watched, and listened to many accounts of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozinak and there numerous achievements. The Apple duo is considered one of the most brilliant teams of inventors ever because of their leadership qualities and motivation. This

Jobs as a computer company. Jobs and Wozniak had been friends in high school. In the year 1975, they were members of The Homebrew Computer Club, a now-legendary group where electronics supporters met to discuss the Altair 8800 and other technical topics (Nik Rawlinson 2015). Wozniak joined forces with Jobs to make personal computers in Job’s garage. That effort started out as a shoestring operation and quickly became successful. In 1977, the pair presented a relatively modern-looking computer in a plastic

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and DRM have been around since decades ago. In fact, when the Altair BASIC was first introduced in 1975, the Homebrew Computer Club (a computer hobbyists club) member made unauthorized copies of Altair basic software and distributed them at the club meeting. At that time, MITS Company licensed the software from “Micro-soft” (now Microsoft). Although MITS has been selling thousand computers a month, Micro-Soft wasn’t getting much royalty fees since basic copies have been distributed illegally.