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Engineer. Known for. Apple Inc. employee #4 who first introduced Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak; a member of the Apple Macintosh development team. Bill Fernandez is a user-interface architect and innovator who was Apple Computer 's first full time employee when they incorporated in 1977 and was issued badge number 4.
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Silicon Valley created Bill Fernandez. His parents met at Stanford University. They moved to Sunnyvale when he was five, and he spent his entire childhood growing up in that community, in a house that his mother decorated in a minimalist Japanese style that reflected her background in Far East Studies at Stanford. The Fernandez family’s Eichler hou...
It wasn’t long after he introduced Jobs and Wozniak that Fernandez noticed the two of them hanging out on their own. They collaborated on two things: electronics projects and practical jokes. Eventually, the two of them starting working on professional projects together when Jobs landed a gig with Noah Bushnell at Atari and enlisted help from Wozni...
After leaving the component maker, Fernandez took his life in a completely different direction. He got out of technology. He searched for bigger meaning. He left the country. “I have always had too many interests,” he said. One of those interests was the martial arts. Fernandez was a brown belt in Aikido, a Japanese form of the martial arts that is...
Dec 26, 2016 · Bill Fernandez first met Steve Jobs at Cupertino Junior High School when Jobs was a new student. Fernandez was also a neighbor and friend of Steve Wozniak. Here's how Fernandez describes it...
Dec 5, 2014 · Bill Fernandez was the first full-time employee of Apple, hired by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1977. He helped design the Apple I and Apple II computers, but left the company after 18 months due to lack of growth and stock options.
Dec 5, 2014 · By Chuong H Nguyen. published 5 December 2014. In a rare interview, Apple's first employee, Bill Fernandez, opened up about working with Steve Jobs, his role in building the Apple II computer, and how he played matchmaker to introduce Jobs to co-founder Steve Wozniak.
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Dec 29, 2016 · Bill Fernandez and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs became friends in seventh grade. “Neither of us wanted to play the social games that you needed to play to be accepted into any of the numerous...
Aug 8, 2002 · Learn about Bill Fernandez, the first employee of Apple and the man who introduced Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Read his exclusive interview on his early involvement in computing, his relationship with the two Steves, and his insights into the Apple II and Macintosh.
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