Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer.

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

It was at this show that Steve Jobs asked Gursharan Sidhu a seemingly innocuous question, " Why has networking not caught on?

Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $ 429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were the Henry Ford and Louis Chevrolet of their times, who capitalized on ideas already commonly known before they started in the business.

A one button version of the mouse was incorporated into the Apple Macintosh but Steve Jobs decided against incorporating the chorded keyset.

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The community included Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates and Paul Allen and created the personal computing industry.

The original Macintosh system software was partially based on the Lisa OS, previously released by Apple for the Lisa computer in 1983 and, as part of an agreement allowing Xerox to buy shares in Apple at a favorable rate, it also used concepts from the Xerox PARC Xerox Alto, which Steve Jobs and several other Macintosh team members had previewed.

In January 1981, Steve Jobs completely took over the Macintosh project.

NeXT was founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs after he was fired from Apple the same year.

In 1984, Apple founder Steve Jobs was the head of Apple's SuperMicro division, which was responsible for the development of the Macintosh and Lisa personal computers.

Apple paid $ 429 million in cash which went to the initial investors and 1. 5 million Apple shares which went to Steve Jobs.

( Steve Jobs was deliberately not given cash for his part in the deal.

Several NeXT executives replaced their Apple counterparts when Steve Jobs restructured the company's board of directors.

A NeXTWORLD Expo followed as a developer conference, held in 1991 and 1992 at the San Francisco Civic Center and in 1993 and 1994 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, with Steve Jobs as the keynote speaker.

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At about this time they were visited by Steve Jobs, who urged them to adapt PostScript to be used as the language for driving laser printers.

When Steve Jobs left Apple and started NeXT, he pitched Adobe on the idea of using PS as the display system for his new workstation computers.

In August 2006, the Power Mac's retirement was announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference by Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller, making way for its Intel-based replacement, the Mac Pro.

Interim CEO Steve Jobs turned his eye to the redesign of the PowerBook series in 2000.

Steve Jobs was quoted as saying that, it was " as big a deal as the PC ", though later sources quoted him as saying when first introduced to the product that its design " sucked ".

** Steve Jobs returns to Apple Computer, Inc at Macworld in Boston.

Following his close friend Milton Caniff's lead ( with Steve Canyon ), Capp had recently fought a successful battle with the syndicate to gain complete ownership of his feature when the Shmoos debuted.

Gone are the days when the Hoffman House flourished on Madison Square, with its famous nudes by Bouguereau ; when barrooms were palaces, on nearly every corner throughout the city ; when Steve Brodie, jumping from Brooklyn Bridge, splashed the entire country with publicity ; when Bowery concert halls dispensed schooners of beer for a nickel, with a stage show thrown in ; when Theis's Music Hall still resounded on 14th Street with its great mechanical organ, the wonder of its day, a place of beauty, with fine paintings and free company and the frankest of female life.

Things got heated in 2011 during a game when Roman Harper illegally hit Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith after Smith scored a touchdown.

The team suffered a tragedy during spring training of, when a boat carrying pitchers Steve Olin, Tim Crews, and Bob Ojeda crashed into a pier.

This story abruptly ended but Michelle soon had new troubles when she suspected her boyfriend, Steve McDonald, had cheated on her.

During the Fear Itself storyline, Steve Rogers is present when the threat of the Serpent is known.

The song gave international exposure to the underground New Romantic movement when Bowie visited the London club " Blitz "— the main New Romantic hangout — to recruit several of the regulars ( including Steve Strange of the band Visage ) to act in the accompanying video, renowned as one of the most innovative of all time.

The concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a drawing of a character from Steve Gallacci ’ s Albedo Anthropomorphics initiated a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels, which in turn initiated a discussion group that met at science fiction and comics conventions.

However, the overdriven sound of the Hammond gained a new image when it became part of 1960s and 1970s rock with artists like Alan Price, Gregg Allman, Steve Winwood, Rick Wright, Keith Emerson, Jon Lord, Matthew Fisher, Rick Wakeman, Tony Banks and Jack McDuff.

The name actually comes from Steve S. Long's reply when asked what the standard abbreviation for the Fifth Edition would be: " I don't care if you call it ' Fred ', as long as you buy it.

In Looking For Eric, the main actor Steve Evets discovered that football icon Eric Cantona was in the film only when he turned around to face him in a scene, with the camera rolling.

After backup quarterback Gary Kubiak scored Denver's only touchdown with less than two minutes to go, the Bills then clinched the victory when defensive back Kirby Jackson forced and recovered a fumble from running back Steve Sewell on Denver's final drive of the game.

McNally said, " Steve was interested in telling the story of a relationship from the present back to the moment when the couple first met.

The Conservative Party had to replace Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare as their candidate when he was charged with perjury ; Steve Norris was elected as his replacement.

As Steve Jobs lost the original power struggle at Apple and left to found NeXT, his angel investor was Perot who invested over 20 million dollars because he believed in Jobs and did not want to miss out as he had when had the chance to invest in Bill Gates ' fledging Microsoft.

Steve McQueen packed a gun when he went to Jay Sebring's funeral.

The British angling record for chub was broken in May 2007 when Steve White caught a 4. 2 kg ( 9. 2 pound ) fish from a southern stillwater on a mainline boilie.

Massot served a writ, leading to a period of stalemate which was finally broken when Grant and Led Zeppelin's lawyer Steve Weiss agreed to pay Massot the money he was owed, after which he delivered the film to the band.

Clapton had met Bruce when the bassist / vocalist briefly played with the Bluesbreakers in March 1966 ; the two also had worked together as part of a one-shot band called Powerhouse ( which also included Steve Winwood and Paul Jones ).