Stephen 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 ResearchCenter. 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)