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It is October the 5th, and on this day in 2011, Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple's, which revolutionized the computer, music, and mobile communications industries with such devices as Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, died at age 56 of complications from pan- pancreatic cancer.

Born on February the 24th, 1955 in San Francisco, uh, to unmarried graduate student Joanne Schieble and, uh, Altufa- Al- Abdul Fattah Jad- Jandali, a Syri- Syriac immigrant, uh, d- Jobs was adopted as a baby by Paul Jobs, a Silicon Valley machinist, and his wife Clara.

After graduating from high school in Cupertino, California, in 1972, Jobs attended Reed College, a liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon, for a single semester before dropping out.

He later worked briefly for pioneering video game maker Atari in California, traveled to India, and studied Zen Buddhism.

[clears throat] In 1956, Jobs and his computer engineer friend Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer in Jobs' parents' garage in, uh, Los Altos, California.

As Bloomberg News would later note about Jobs, he had no formal technical training and no real business experience.

He had what instead was the appreciation of technology's elegance and a notion that computers could be more than a hobbyist toy or a corporation's workhorse.

These machines could be indispensable tools.

In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak launched the Apple II, which became the first popular personal computer.

In 1980, Apple went public, and Jobs, then in his mid-20s, became a multimillionaire.

[clears throat] Four years later, uh, Apple debuted the, uh, Macintosh, one of the first personal computers to feature a graphical use interface, which allowed people to navigate by pointing and clicking a mouse rather than typing commands.

In 1985, Jobs left the company fol- following a power struggle with Apple's board of directors.

The same year, he established NeXT, a business that developed high-performance computers.

The machines proved too pricey to gain a popular s- consumer audience.

However, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web using NeXT workstation.

That's interesting.

In 1986, Jobs acquired a s- small computer graphics studio founded by filmmaker George Lucas and rechristened it Pixar Animation Studios.

In 1995, Pixar released its first film, Toy Story, the first ever feature-length computer-animated movie.

It became a huge box office success, and it was followed by such award-winning hits as Finding Nemo, The Incredibles.

And in 19, uh, 2006 rather, Walt Disney Company, uh, purchased Pixar for more than $7 billion, making Jobs the largest Disney shareholder.

In 1996, Apple, which had founded without Jobs, uh, which had floundered without Jobs, announced it would buy back NeXT and hire Jobs as an advisor.

The following year, he became Apple's interim CEO, and the interim was dropped in 2000, and under his leadership, a nearly bankrupt Apple was transformed into one of the planet's most valuable corporations.

A charismatic, demanding perfectionist, Jobs was said to possess the ability to intuit what customers wanted even before they knew it themselves.

In his trademark jeans and black mock [laughs] turtleneck, uh, the tech titan turned product's launches into highly anticipated events, and Apple introduced a series of innovative digital devi- uh, devices, including the iPod portable music player in 2001, the iPhone in 2007, and the iPad tablet computer in 2010 that became part of everyday modern life.

In early 2007, Jobs announced the Cupertino-based Apple was dropping computer from its official moniker to, uh, reflect the fact that the company's focus had shifted from computers only to mobile electronic devices.

It is October the 5th, and on this day in 2011, Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple's, which revolutionized the computer, music, and mobile communications industries with such devices as Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, died at age 56 of complications from pan- pancreatic cancer.

Born on February the 24th, 1955 in San Francisco, uh, to unmarried graduate student Joanne Schieble and, uh, Altufa- Al- Abdul Fattah Jad- Jandali, a Syri- Syriac immigrant, uh, d- Jobs was adopted as a baby by Paul Jobs, a Silicon Valley machinist, and his wife Clara.

After graduating from high school in Cupertino, California, in 1972, Jobs attended Reed College, a liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon, for a single semester before dropping out.

He later worked briefly for pioneering video game maker Atari in California, traveled to India, and studied Zen Buddhism.

[clears throat] In 1956, Jobs and his computer engineer friend Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer in Jobs' parents' garage in, uh, Los Altos, California.

As Bloomberg News would later note about Jobs, he had no formal technical training and no real business experience.

He had what instead was the appreciation of technology's elegance and a notion that computers could be more than a hobbyist toy or a corporation's workhorse.

These machines could be indispensable tools.

In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak launched the Apple II, which became the first popular personal computer.

In 1980, Apple went public, and Jobs, then in his mid-20s, became a multimillionaire.

[clears throat] Four years later, uh, Apple debuted the, uh, Macintosh, one of the first personal computers to feature a graphical use interface, which allowed people to navigate by pointing and clicking a mouse rather than typing commands.

In 1985, Jobs left the company fol- following a power struggle with Apple's board of directors.

The same year, he established NeXT, a business that developed high-performance computers.

The machines proved too pricey to gain a popular s- consumer audience.

However, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web using NeXT workstation.

That's interesting.

In 1986, Jobs acquired a s- small computer graphics studio founded by filmmaker George Lucas and rechristened it Pixar Animation Studios.

In 1995, Pixar released its first film, Toy Story, the first ever feature-length computer-animated movie.

It became a huge box office success, and it was followed by such award-winning hits as Finding Nemo, The Incredibles.

And in 19, uh, 2006 rather, Walt Disney Company, uh, purchased Pixar for more than $7 billion, making Jobs the largest Disney shareholder.

In 1996, Apple, which had founded without Jobs, uh, which had floundered without Jobs, announced it would buy back NeXT and hire Jobs as an advisor.

The following year, he became Apple's interim CEO, and the interim was dropped in 2000, and under his leadership, a nearly bankrupt Apple was transformed into one of the planet's most valuable corporations.

A charismatic, demanding perfectionist, Jobs was said to possess the ability to intuit what customers wanted even before they knew it themselves.

In his trademark jeans and black mock [laughs] turtleneck, uh, the tech titan turned product's launches into highly anticipated events, and Apple introduced a series of innovative digital devi- uh, devices, including the iPod portable music player in 2001, the iPhone in 2007, and the iPad tablet computer in 2010 that became part of everyday modern life.

In early 2007, Jobs announced the Cupertino-based Apple was dropping computer from its official moniker to, uh, reflect the fact that the company's focus had shifted from computers only to mobile electronic devices.