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Steven Jobs was born in California in 1955 and __(1)___ (adopt) by Paul and Clara Jobs. He became interested in computers in high school, going to after-school lectures at the computer company Hewlett-Packard. He enrolled at Reed College in Oregon. ___(2)___ he went to a variety of classes, he never graduated. Instead, he moved (3)__ to California and began working at Atari. He also started working on __(4)_ (he) own computer projects with Steve Wozniak.
Jobs and Wozniak, along with Ronald Wayne, founded Apple in 1976, _(5)__ (name) after Job's favorite fruit. Apple changed the way people thought about computers; the company made them small, easy to use, and __(6)__ (access) to normal people. The Macintosh computer was started in 1984, but sales slowed in __(7)____ following year, and Jobs was pushed out of his own company.
After leaving Apple, Jobs founded NEXT, Inc. The company decided __(8)__ (develop) both computer hardware and software. In 1996, Apple bought NEXT, and Jobs returned ___(9)_ his original company. He cut programs and jobs, but he also helped make Apple goods more beloved than ever. Apple has been on a roll ever since, creating elegant, fast, user-friendly ___(10)_ (product) that reflect the vision of Steve Jobs.