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Who Was Steve Jobs? Who Was Steve Jobs? By Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso Illustrated by John O’Brien Grosset & Dunlap An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Who Was Steve Jobs? Steve Jobs always loved machines. His father repaired machines for a living. As a child, Steve loved to watch his dad build and fix things. When Steve grew up, he started a company that built machines. Not just any machines, but a machine Steve was sure would soon become part of daily life, just like cars and TV sets. What was this machine? A personal computer. Today, millions of people own personal computers. But back in the 1970s nobody did. The first modern computer came out in 1938. A computer built in 1946 was as big as a room! When Steve was a kid, computers were still too big and complicated for the average person to use. The government used them to gather information. ......