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Fantastic! I highly recommend watching the bit starting from 2:30. It goes against the myth of Steve Jobs as having a magical talent for envisioning finished products.

He says that when they started out: -They had no idea what people would use these things for -Designed for 6 months and finally built their first computer -All their friends wanted one, but it took 40 hours to build and debug a single machine -They spent all their spare time helping their friends build computers -So they decided to print circuit boards and sell them, to cut down assembly to 5-10 hours -They scrounged up $1300 to have a circuit board laid out -One day, when Jobs was out selling circuit boards, he met someone who wanted to buy 50, but insisted that the machines be fully assembled -And so on...

Quite a different story than the usual version, which portrays Jobs as a natural genius of knowing exactly what people want before they knew themselves.




Like Jobs, I hope I'll have a bit more insight at age fifty than at age twenty.


   Liberated some parts from HP
What is the meaning of it? Copying? or?


It means instead of buying their own computer parts, they helped themselves to the supplies at HP and Atari, where Woz and Jobs worked during the day.

HP and Atari probably didn't notice or didn't care.

He's referring to when Apple was just starting out and they didn't have much capital.




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