Mrs. Dierig
Book notes
17 January, 2016
Part I
Chapter 1 Seeds-
His adopted parents had no college education pg 24
His adopted parents promised he would go to college pg 28
Was a really hard toddler to raise pg 32
His farther stresses the importance of doing things right(this will become important later) pg 36
Didn't want to go to school pg 42
Moved to los altos because of rough school environment for jobs pg 48
Characters-
Clara and Paul Jobs- Steve jobs' adopted parents
Mrs. Hill- one of Stevens 4th grade teachers that helped him succeed
Chapter 2 Woz-
At a Hewlett-Packard Explores club jobs saw his first desktop computer pg 55
Semiconductors were built and that's why Santa Clara valley was known as Silicon Valley pg 59 …show more content…
Steve Wozniak became a friend of jobs because of his expertise in math and technology pg 66
Characters-
Larry Lang- help/showed jobs how to put electronics together
Steve Wozniak- became a friend of Steve despite a big age difference
Chapter 3 Phreaks-
The summer after tenth grade he worked at a local store and he started to learn the difference between what a stores pays for and what they sell it for of 73
After the 1970s he started to experiment with drugs pg 77
The only fight he got in with his dad was when he found drugs in jobs' car pg 79
He also started to discover Shakespeare books and started reading pg 83
Jobs and Woz started messing around with tv remote jammer that Woz built freshman year of college pg 88
They made these "blue boxes" that would allow them to make free overseas calls without going through an operator pg 90
Steve was a very skinny and long haired man at seventeen pg 95
Characters-
Chrisann Brennan- Steves girlfriend when he was seventeen
Chapter 4 college-
He attended college at reed college and it was really hard for his parents to afford but they managed to do it pg 112
Steve was mad because they were making him take all of these course pg 118
Characters-
Daniel Kottke- him and Steve pursued their own reading list of books about Zen