ns to come. Surely he spent several nights tossing and turning at the thought of it. The pecking order was Jobs was the go-getter. The person who made the deals, begged for orders, and got the parts. Woz didn’t care about anything as long as he got to be the engineer. The lack of interest in the business side of Apple computer along with the cutthroat attitude of Jobs would be his demise at Apple computer. That is ten years and millions of dollars into the future. First however is the rise to greatness. The Apple I had lots of problems most being in the area of use. It was not very user friendly. It didn’t even have a case at the point of creation. You had to be a wizard to even unlock its potential. However that was what it had and a retailer by the name of Paul Terrell ordered 50 apple I computers for his stores at the wholesale price of 589 dollars. To get attention it was decided that he would sell them for 666.66 dollars. That was another example of the Steve Jobs affect. The next invention of the great Woz was the Apple II. It had several improvements like the 4k of memory. It used a not included TV set as the monitor. It would become the first truly mass produced personal computer in history. Steve loved working on the Apple II it was his baby and by 1977 he had built something very special. Big business began to get in the way on the great things he was doing. In 1980 Apple Computer went public for 22 dollars a share. It was worth at that time 117 million dollars. Three years later it was valued at 985 million. Steve Wozniak after being a college dropout and a complete electronic nerd was now worth 135.6 million dollars. That was only about 7 percent of the company. Jobs was worth at the time 235 million dollars, and several others had there forks in Apple’s pie. Even Woz’s first wife got some stock in a divorce settlement years earlier was now worth 42 million dollars. After al...
