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Steve Jobs created the Apple II??????



I was reading an article in the August 25, 2005 edition of Computer
World an interview with John Markoff, author of a book called "What the
Doormouse Said".  On page 44 of the magazine it says:

Q:  One of your recurring themes is what you call the fault line
between the profit motive and the conviction that information should be
shared freely.  Did that tension affect the early development of the
PC?

A: It was so much a part of stuff that happened at the MIT AI lab and
later at the Stanford AI lab and later at the Homebrew Hobbyist Club.
It was the spark that set off the computer industry.  [Steve] Wozniak
designed the Apple I just to have a computer to share with his friends
at the Homebrew club.  Steve Jobs understood there could be a market
for that and created the Apple II.  You can see the tension in the
relationship between Jobs and Wozniak, and it was writ large in the
club.