Timeline assignment

By jacobrodriguez1

  • Steve Wozniak is born

  • Wozniak builds his first computer

    Wozniak builds his first computer
    Wozniak at 13 built a computer like machine that could add and subtract (Levy, pg 107) Picture is not of the actual computer just an image of an old calculator I found on google.

  • Wozniak and Jobs built "Blue boxes"

    Wozniak and Jobs built "Blue boxes"
    These Blue Boxes allowed for a person to make free long distance calls, they then sold them to other people at Berkeley. (Levy, pg. 107)

  • Wozniak attends University of California Berkeley

    Wozniak attends University of California Berkeley
    Woz, started attending Berkeley where he met Steve Jobs and they became friends.

  • Woz starts working at Hewlett-Packard

    Woz starts working at Hewlett-Packard
    Woz still had the dream that he wanted to build his own personal computer he got a job at Hewlett Packard.

  • Woz discovers the 8008 chip

    Woz discovers the 8008 chip
    After getting the data sheet of the 8008, Woz came to realization that he could design his computers with microchips (Levy, pg. 108)

  • Wozniak Left Hewlett-Packard for Apple

    Wozniak Left Hewlett-Packard for Apple
    After Woz left HP he decided he'd be business partners with Steve Jobs they worked together in a garage. Soon they created their own company, Apple Computer Co. and started working on their first product the Apple I.

  • Apple II is released

    Apple II is released
    The Apple II was released just 1 year after the Apple I, the Apple II was released premade, had built in graphics which allowed it to be connected to a TV as a display. This made the Apple II wildly successful and was the best selling computer for 5 straight years.

  • Apple II Plus

    Apple II Plus
    The Apple II plus was released in 1979, and it was not much different compared to the Apple II, it was the mostly the same machine it only had upgraded graphics.

  • Apple III

    Apple III
    The Apple III was the follow up to the Apple II Plus, it was considered a commercial failure because it had to be recalled in 1981.

  • Wozniak Returns to UC Berkeley

    Wozniak Returns to UC Berkeley
    Wozniak returned to Berkeley to get his degree in Electrical engineering, and also a degree in computer science.

  • Wozniak Leaves Apple

    Wozniak Leaves Apple
    Wozniak decided to leave Apple because he wanted to be in more of an engineering role.

  • Wozniak Founds the CL 9

    Wozniak Founds the CL 9
    After leaving Apple, Wozniak became a founder of a company that developed a universal TV remote, what followed was the CL 9.