Stephen Jobs
Jobs
Steve Jobs
<person> Stephen P. Jobs (born 24 February 1955). The
co-founder and ex-president of {Apple Computer}, leader of the
team that produced the {Macintosh}.
In 1979, when he was president of Apple, Steven Jobs saw a
demonstration of {Smalltalk} at {Xerox}'s {Palo Alto Research
Center}. He and other Apple employees were "very impressed
with the unique and revolutionary user-friendly design".
The first {Macintosh} was released in January 1984. Jobs
described it as {insanely great}.
Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded {Next, Inc.}.
In December 1996 he was re-employed by Apple when they bought
NeXT.
See also {lithium lick}, {Mathematica}.
(1997-03-18)