D Finnigan wrote:
Bill Garber wrote:
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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... ;-)