"Personal Computers"

    I read this text from the "U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History." It gave a description of the development of personal computers. The text talked about the people responsible revolutionizing a room-sized computer to the smaller, more convenient, modern computer. Among them were Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Steve Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak had originally founded the Apple company to sell reasonably price computers. With Jobs' marketing skills and Wozniak's engineering expertise, the two were able to create the Apple I, II, a new disk drive, the Lisa, and the Macintosh before leaving Apple due to financial issues.
    Jobs returned to Apple years later to establish an alliance with Microsoft for the permission to use the Internet Explorer Web browser in the company's products. Apple soon released the iMac, and later on, Jobs sought to go after the digital music market and succeeded.
    It was Jobs' marketing skills that made it possible for Apple to prosper. He had built the company and led it to failure only to return, create new computers, and conquer the music industry. He did not begin alone though. Jobs worked with Steve Wozniak in the creation of Apple. Wozniak had not only designed a minicomputer that consisted of a keyboard, a central processing unit, and a display screen, but also a disk drive that opened the computers to more uses. Without Wozniak to help build the company, this new disk drive, and design Apple products, would have Steve Jobs still been able to become the man he is remembered as.

MLA Citation:
Benson, Sonia, Daniel E. Brannen, Rebecca Valentine, Lawrence W. Baker, and Sarah Herman. "Personal Computers." U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History. Vol. 6. Detroit, 2009. 1222-228. Gale Cengage Learning. 2009. Web. 4 Mar. 2012.

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