When installing wall and floor tiles, technicians place plastic spacers between each one to ensure the lines remain uniform. Tile spacers range in size from 1/16 inch to 1/2 inch. Once the tile mortar sets, the installer can remove the spacers but cannot change the spacing.
Company History. Apple Computers, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. Jobs and Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes or offices.
Article updated on February 29, 2016. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were born in the same year. Both dropped out of college. Both started companies with good friends: Gates founded Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) with Paul Allen in April 1975, while Jobs founded Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) with Steve Wozniak exactly one year later. Photograph by Matt Yohe (Wikimedia Commons).