In Archived Interview, Steve Jobs Recalls Working on HP Assembly Line
MENLO PARK, CA—In a 1994 interview archived by the Silicon Valley Historical Association, Apple founder Steve Jobs recalls how, when he was in high school, he cold-called Hewlett-Packard's co-founder Bill Hewlett to request some leftover electronic parts and, to his surprise, Hewlett picked up the phone. The executive then offered the 12-year-old Jobs an internship.
"He laughed and gave me the spare parts to build the frequency counter, and he gave me a job that summer at Hewlett-Packard, working on the assembly line putting nuts and bolts together on frequency counters," recalls Jobs. "He got me a job in the place that built them and I was in heaven."