Apple computer was founded by Wozniak and jobs in a garage in 1975, when the two friends were only in their early twenties. Wozniak had a natural aptitude for electronics. His father was an outstanding engineer who worked for the Lockheed corporation in California. Wozniak started reading his father's technical literature when he was only nine years old. He built his own radio receiver and transmitter and got into ham radio operation when he was only eleven. "The woz" as he was nicknamed, became fascinated with computers as an eighth-grader. His room was filled with pictures of them. He designed and built a computer that won first prize at the Bay Area science fair.



Wozniak had a playful side, as well. He loved to play baseball and was big on practical jokes. In fact, he spent most of his first year at the university of Colorado playing practical jokes on his dorm mates. That summer, he met Steve Jobs, a high -strung, enterprising young man. He and jobs became best friends.

Jobs encouraged Wozniak to go into business of selling to college students a "blue box" he had built. The blue box was an illegal electronic device that could be used to make free long distance phone calls. The boxes cost $60 to make. Jobs and Wozniak sold them wholesale for $80. After selling about 200 boxes in 1973, they decided the business was too risky and closed shop.

Wozniak dropped out of school (college) and landed a job with HP ( Hewlett Packard), a major computer company. Jobs dropped out too, and travelled to India. Funny enough, he shaved his head and made a determination to study Buddhism. He soon got tired of meditating and returned to Cupertino, California where he got a job with Atari and hooked up again with "The Wiz".full story