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Orwellian Bill Gates and a tiny Steve Jobs at MacWorld Boston 1997 ..... After having read this long biography yet very short account of Steve's career ...

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Bio PDFPage 1Family backgroundSteve Jobs was born on February 24 1955 in the city of San Francisco. His biological mother was an unwed graduate student (and his biological father is said to be a politicalscience or mathematics professor maybe of MiddleWestern descent but this has never been confirmed).Back in the 50s it was unconceivable for such a young woman to raise a child on her own so she decided to put her little baby boy up for adoption. But she insisted that the adoptive parents had to be college graduates just like she was... This was not the case of Paul and Clara Jobs but Steves biological mother finally relented to let them her child after they promised he would be sent to college.Paul Jobs was a midwestern farmers son who had settled in the Bay Area after his war service in the USCG and married Clara in 1946. The couple decided to name their adopted child Steven Paul Jobs. Steves younger sister Patty was adopted 3 years later.Childhood & Teenage yearsSteve was very bored in school. By his own words:"I was pretty bored in school and turned into a little terror"(Playboy Interview with David Sheff February 1985)But this would soon change thanks to his 4th grade teacher Imogene Teddy Hill. Steve would later say about her:"She was one of the saints of my life. She taught an advanced fourth grade class and ittook her about a month to get hip to my situation. She bribed me into learning.His skills became so apparent that the school allowed him to skip 5th grade and go straight to middle school. The problem was the Crittenden middle school was not a niceplace to be around. Steve who felt left behind in the ambient chaos insisted that his parents moved him to another school the next year otherwise he would refuse to go to school altogether. The 11year olds thoughtful parents bowed and moved to Los Altos in 1967 so that Steve could attend the much cozier Cupertino Junior High School.This move is worth noting because the city of Los Altos as we ...

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