Re: Upcoming Apple II Product

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

D Finnigan wrote:
> Bill Garber wrote:
>
> > "D Finnigan" <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote in message 
> > dog_cow-1333648160@macgui.com">news:dog_cow-1333648160@macgui.com... 
> >
> > > Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hmmm.  I thought that they sold the calculator and the van 
> > > > to finance blue boxes which they sold to raise money for the 
> > > > Apple I boards... 
> > >
> > > I recall reading that Jobs sold his VW bus and Woz his 
> > > programmable HP calculator to directly finance Apple Computer. 
> >
> > Go here about halfway down the page, says they sold the van and the 
> > calculator to directly finance the production of the Apple I computer. 
> >
> > http://apple2history.org/museum/articles/byte8412/ 
>
>
> I think I read it in Owen Linzmayer's Apple Confidential. But that would
> have been over 6 years ago by now that I read it.

Most published accounts leave out the economic role of the blue boxes
in financing Apple, but I heard from someone who certainly knows the
real story.  It just doesn't show up in "expurgated" accounts.  ;-)

That, of course, includes Jobs' biography.

The illegality of blue boxes no doubt has a good deal to do with
this usual omission, though one would think that by now it would
be ancient history...  ;-)

-michael

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