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Chapter 3

“We Will Have a

Company”

Wozniak finished his computer in 1976. It was a circuit

board connected to a television set and a keyboard. When

Woz typed in commands, they appeared on the television screen.

This was a first in computing.

Woz demonstrated his creation at a Homebrew Club meeting

and passed out detailed instructions on how to build it, which the

audience grabbed up. But few actually built their own machines.

Jobs concluded that the other hobbyists lacked the skill or the

time to build them. He reasoned that if he and Wozniak went into

business making the printed circuit boards, their peers would buy

them. Customers would still have to buy the various components

and assemble the machines, but the most complicated part would

be done for them. From this small idea, the Apple Computer

Company was born.

Wozniak created the computer that launched the company. But

it was Jobs’s vision and single-mindedness that made the com￾pany successful and quirky. Like Jobs, the company was different

from anything that came before it.

Apple is Born

When Jobs first suggested that he and Wozniak build and sell the