While he and Wozniak began work on the Apple II, he consulted with a venture capitalist and enlisted an advertising company to aid him in marketing. They met their 30-day deadline and continued production in Jobs’s parents’ garage.Īfter their initial success, Jobs sought out the kind of help that other industry pioneers had shunned. To raise the capital to buy the parts they needed, Jobs sold his minibus and Wozniak his calculator. Jobs got an order for 50 of the machines from Paul Terrell, owner of one of the industry’s first computer retail stores and a frequent Homebrew attendee. It lacked a case, a keyboard, and a power supply. The product was actually only a printed circuit board. Jobs figured that they could sell it for $50, twice what the parts cost them, and that they could sell hundreds of them to hobbyists. When Hewlett-Packard, where he had an internship, declined to build his design, he shared his progress at a Homebrew meeting, where Jobs suggested that they could sell it together. Wozniak purchased one of the early microprocessors, the Mostek 6502 (made by MOS Technology), and used it to design a computer. Wozniak was an early and regular participant at Homebrew Computer Club meetings ( see the earlier section, The Altair), which Jobs also occasionally attended. Like the founding of the early chip companies and the invention of the microprocessor, the story of Apple is a key part of Silicon Valley folklore.
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