Re: Upcoming Apple II Product

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message hpednatpp7T1deLSnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d@giganews.com">news:hpednatpp7T1deLSnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d@giganews.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...  ;-)

This should be the case, Michael, now that current technology 
has rendered the 'blue box' useless, and easily detected. 

Yep, with this account left questionable, I have read up on them. 

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