Jobs had little knowledge of circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the fee evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. According to Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Atari offered $100 (equivalent to $564 in 2018) for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. He was assigned to create a circuit board for the arcade video game Breakout. In 1973, Jobs was working for arcade game company Atari, Inc. A friend said, 'you should meet Steve Jobs because he likes electronics, and he also plays pranks.' So he introduced us." "We first met in 1971 during my college years, while he was in high school. This was recounted by Wozniak in a 2007 interview with ABC News, of how and when he first met Jobs:
Jobs and Wozniak became friends when Jobs worked for the summer at HP, where Wozniak too was employed, working on a mainframe computer. Wozniak was introduced to Jobs by Fernandez, who attended Homestead High School with Jobs in 1971. It was during this time that he befriended Steve Jobs. Before focusing his attention on Apple, he was employed at Hewlett-Packard (HP) where he designed calculators. He later re-enrolled at De Anza College and transferred to University of California, Berkeley in 1971. During this time, as a self-taught project, Wozniak designed and built a "Cream Soda" computer with his friend Bill Fernandez. In 1969, Wozniak returned to the Bay Area after being expelled from University of Colorado Boulder in his first year for sending prank messages on the university's computer system. Wozniak has credited watching Star Trek and attending Star Trek conventions while in his youth as a source of inspiration for his starting Apple Inc. In the early 1970s, Wozniak was known as "Berkeley Blue" in the phone phreak community, after he made a blue box. : 18 Wozniak has mentioned his surname being Polish and Ukrainian and spoken of his Polish descent, but stated that he does not know the origin of some other people with the Wozniak surname because he is "no heritage expert". The name on Wozniak's birth certificate is "Stephan Gary Wozniak", but Steve's mother said that she intended it to be spelled "Stephen", which is what he uses. : 18 He graduated from Homestead High School in 1968. Steve Wozniak was born in San Jose, California, the son of Francis Jacob "Jerry" Wozniak (1925–1994) from Michigan : 18 and Margaret Louise Wozniak (née Kern) (1923–2014) from Washington state. Wozniak is currently Chief Scientist at the data virtualization company Primary Data, and has remained an employee of Apple over the years in a ceremonial capacity. He then pursued several other business and philanthropic ventures throughout his career, focusing largely on tech in K–12 schools. After stepping away from Apple in 1985 for good, Wozniak founded CL 9 and created the first universal remote, released in 1987. He also had major influence until 1981, along with computer scientist Jef Raskin, over the initial development of the original Apple Macintosh, which Jobs then took over following Wozniak's brief departure from the company due to a traumatic airplane accident. He primarily designed the Apple II in 1977, known as one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers, while Jobs oversaw the development of its foam-molded plastic case and early Apple employee Rod Holt developed the switching power supply. Wozniak started designing and developing the Apple I in 1975 it became the computer that launched Apple when he and Jobs first began marketing it the following year. He and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs are widely recognized as pioneers of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. in 1976, which later became the world's largest information technology company by revenue.
Stephen Gary Wozniak ( / ˈ w ɒ z n i æ k/ born August 11, 1950), : 18 often referred to by the nickname Woz, is an American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur who co-founded Apple, Inc.
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