Several globe-spanning firms began exactly that way, including Apple Computers. Founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launched the company in 1976.

Steve Wozniak helped co-found Apple, but he stepped away 40 years ago today. Yet he has continued to have a huge influence in the tech world ever since.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...

The Apple computer was sold in 1976 at the eyebrow-raising price of $666.66, reportedly because Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak liked repeated digits.

In 1976, Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer Company. Their first product, the Apple I, was essentially a circuit board that hobbyists could use to build their own computers.

Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. and the man behind the first personal computer, the iPod, iPhone iPad and other innovations, has died at 56.

TOKYO, Feb 27 (Reuters Life!) - Apple Inc. co-founder Steven Wozniak was barely 10 years old when he discovered the love of his life. In a hall closet at his home in California's Santa Clara ...

On April 12th, 1976, one of three co-founders of Apple Computer sold his 10% stake in the company for $2,300. Ronald Wayne says he made the “best decision with the information available to me at ...

In this April 24, 1984 file photo, Steve Jobs, left, chairman of Apple Computers, John Sculley, center, president and CEO, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, unveil the new Apple IIc computer ...

Their company, Apple Computer, was not as good as two other personal computer companies in the market, Mr. Kramlich said in 2015. But their sense of design and entrepreneurial spark were impressive.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak seemingly had it all: ... Nearly 40 years ago, the Apple Macintosh computer came out -- a revolutionary machine that changed computing forever.