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Steven Paul is born in San Francisco, CA, soon to be adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.
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Steve and Woz build and sell illegally blue boxes to Berkeley students.
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Fall: Steve spends one semester at Reed College, Oregon, then drops out.
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Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobs' garage, and sell them to hobbyists.
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IBM launches the IBM PC, the biggest threat to Apple's future.
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Steve Jobs resigns from Apple. Apple announces it will sue Steve's future company, NeXT.
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Steve discovers his biological mother, novelist Mona Simpson.
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Pixar signs a deal with Disney to make a computer-animated feature film.
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Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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"The day hell froze over": Steve Jobs introduces iTunes for Windows.