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Steve Jobs was born on February 24th 1955 in san Francisco California and was raised by adoptive parents in Cupertino California. Jobs admired his father because "he knew how to build anything. If we needed a cabinet he would build it." Jobs' mother taught him how to read as a toddler and Jobs said he was "pretty bored in school and turned into a little terror... you should have seen us in the third grade, we basically destroyed the teacher." His father blamed this on schools for not challenging his son. Jobs' fourth grade teacher bribed Jobs to study in school with money and Jobs said that he learned more that year than any other.
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Jobs skipped 5th grade and in 6th grade where he was considered a loner. In 7th grade Jobs was often bullied and he told his parents to pull him out of his school or he would drop out. Even though the Jobs family didn't have much money they had no choice but to use all their savings and move. Their new house in Los Altos California, was in an area highly populated with engineers. Jobs began his first year of high school with Bill Fernandez who would later introduce him to Steve Wozniak. In high school Jobs was still an outsider being not nerdy enough to be a nerd and too smart for the hippies. In jobs' senior year Wozniak developed a blue box which allowed for free long distance calls which Jobs sold and split profit with Wozniak.
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College Jobs enrolled at Reed college in Portland Oregon in September 1972. It was an expensive college that his parents could barley afford but he insisted on going. Though he was adamant on going Jobs dropped out after his first semester. Jobs didn't want to waste his parents money on education he didn't think he needed.
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Life Before AppleAfter dropping out of college Jobs found a job at Atari where him and Steve Wozniak developed the prototype for the game Breakout. Breakout was a single player version of pong and it also became a vey successful game inspiring a sequel Super Breakout. At Atari Jobs saved enough money for a seven month trip to India where he first tried LSD calling it one of his two most important experiences in his life.
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Later LifeIn October 2003 Jobs was diagnosed with cancer in his pancreas. Jobs resisted modern treatment and preferred alternative treatment that he found online such as a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies, etc.. He eventually got surgery but by January 2006 the cancer had returned. On January 17th 2011 Jobs took a medical leave from Apple and on October 5th 2011 Jobs passed away
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