I was watching this interview with Steve Wozniak yesterday and learned a lot of very fascinating facts about the early days of Apple. (video below)
Some of these stories are unbelievable.
Steve Job and Steve Wozniak’s first business partnership began when Wozniak read an article titled "Secrets of the Little Blue Box" from the October 1971 issue of Esquire, and started to build his own "blue boxes" that enabled one to make long-distance phone calls at no cost.
Jobs, who handled the sales of the blue boxes, managed to sell some two hundred of them for $150 each, and split the profit with Wozniak.
$30,0000
Jobs later told his biographer that if it hadn't been for Wozniak's blue boxes, "there wouldn't have been an Apple."
In 1975, Wozniak began designing and developing the computer that would eventually make him famous…
The Apple.
With the Apple I, Wozniak was largely working to impress other members of the Palo Alto-based Homebrew Computer Club, a local group of electronics hobbyists interested in computing. The club was one of several key centers which established the home hobbyist era, essentially creating the microcomputer industry over the next few decades. Unlike other custom Homebrew designs, the Apple had an easy-to-achieve video capability that drew a crowd when it was unveiled.
This reminds me of @jacobgadikian ‘s idea to run a Blurt Witness on the Raspberry Pi …
Original 1976 Apple 1 computer in a briefcase, from the Sydney Powerhouse Museum collection