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johnx123-up on Dec 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980)

   Liberated some parts from HP

What is the meaning of it? Copying? or?

fjarlq on Dec 14, 2011 [–]

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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