Unheard Facts of iGod
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 08 October 2011, 00:36 IST
Offered Internship with Hewlett-Packard
As an eighth-grader, he called William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, to question about a missing part from a frequency counter he was assembling, the New York Times reports. Hewlett supposedly spoke to Jobs for 20 minutes, and then presented him a bag of parts and a summer internship.
Pixar Savoiur
Jobs purchased the company from George Lucas' LucasFilm for $5M in 1986. The first film produced by Pixar under Jobs was the critically acclaimed "Toy Story"