Steve Wozniak worked at Hewlett Packard designing calculators, which is a different kind of computer. And then all of a sudden, discovered that the prices of some parts called "microprocessors" and "memory chips" had gotten so low, that he could actually afford, with maybe a month's salary (if saved for a little while) could afford to design and build a computer.
Steve Wozniak had designed so many computers in his life that he
knew what exceptional things he had done and could do. He had even built a small computer five years before, around 1970.
Big companies that ran big businesses - IBM, Hewlett Packard, companies like that - sneered at these little products, based on
microprocessors.
Then showed off the design at the Homebrew Computer Club.
Then came Steve Jobs and a $1000 investment to build and sell the
PC Boards which became orders for Apple computer.
So yes parts of the original Apple computer was initially developed by Wozniak at HP and Apple the company was started in a garage.
>>>The original apple computer was developed by Wozniak while he was at HP, I think. He used their tools (and time?) for free, and tried to sell the company on the project first. When they weren't interested, he got together with Jobs and did the next version, and quit the company.<<<
Microsoft is happy that IBM PC got started.
>>> There were many sub-1000 dollar pc's, way before the IBM pc ripped off the 'PC' name from general useage.<<< |
