Stephen Jobs
Jobs
Steve Jobs

    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)