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Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
Steve Wozniak joined the Homebrew Computer Club, a group of computer enthusiasts and geeks who met in the garage of an unemployed engineer. Jobs went there too.
Inspired by these meetings, Wozniak began developing a personal computer, which later became the prototype of the Apple I.
The main work on the development and assembly of the Apple I took place at his workplace in the Hewlett-Packard office (he was an employee at that time).
“The work was done in my office at Hewlett-Packard in Cupertino (California): I soldered, assembled chips, designed them, drew on drawing tables. It was an incredible time,” Steve Wozniak recalled in the same interview.
It's funny that the young engineer tried several times to persuade his superiors - Hewlett-Packard managers - to start producing his computer. And I was refused five times. But his friend Steve Jobs became interested in the idea and suggested that his namesake, who was 5 years older than him, organize a business on his own. After some deliberation (“Even if we go bankrupt, at least we’ll tell our grandchildren that we had our own company”) Wozniak quit HP, and most importantly, he took his invention with him. In fact, the rights to it, according to the employment contract, belonged to the employer, but they easily let the employee go with this useless “toy”.
At the next meeting of the Homemade Computer Club, Jobs and Wozniak presented a computer.
Then the first buyer was found, Paul Terrell, owner of the Byte Shop, who was the first to decide to organize a mass sale of computer equipment.
He needed assembled circuit boards and agreed to buy 50 complete Apple I computers for $500 each.
In the future, the creators of the IT giant will call this deal the most important in their lives.
They had to assemble the first batch of cars at Jobs’s parents’ house, including in the garage: they didn’t have an office yet.
It took a month to complete the order. The partners involved everyone they could in the work: relatives, friends, acquaintances. Some of them soldered microcircuits, some inserted chips, some drew up documents. Steve Jobs' mother played the role of secretary: she sat on the phone, answering calls.
The order was completed exactly on time: the young businessmen supplied Paul Terrell with fifty complete computers, and Steve Jobs paid for the components he had borrowed from the distributor.
The company got back on its feet early the next year, when Jobs was able to wrest $250,000 from venture capitalist Don Valentine.
Apple received funding, acquired full-time employees and its own office in Cupertino, leaving that same house with a garage in Los Altos.