tailieunhanh - Steve Jobs.Other books in the People in the News series phần 5

Ông ngủ trên sàn của căn phòng ký túc xá của Kottke và tham dự các lớp học trong các đối tượng quan tâm đến anh mà không nhận được tín dụng cho họ. Ông đã kết bạn với các hiệu trưởng của học sinh, Jack Dudman, người đã rất ấn tượng với cậu bé rằng ông bỏ qua những hành động bất hợp pháp của mình. Dudman giải thích: "Steve đã rất hỏi | We Will Have a Company Wozniak finished his computer in 1976. It was a circuit board connected to a television set and a keyboard. When Woz typed in commands they appeared on the television screen. This was a first in computing. Woz demonstrated his creation at a Homebrew Club meeting and passed out detailed instructions on how to build it which the audience grabbed up. But few actually built their own machines. Jobs concluded that the other hobbyists lacked the skill or the time to build them. He reasoned that if he and Wozniak went into business making the printed circuit boards their peers would buy them. Customers would still have to buy the various components and assemble the machines but the most complicated part would be done for them. From this small idea the Apple Computer Company was born. Wozniak created the computer that launched the company. But it was Jobs s vision and single-mindedness that made the company successful and quirky. Like Jobs the company was different from anything that came before it. Apple is Born When Jobs first suggested that he and Wozniak build and sell the 40 Jobs and Wozniak agreed to sell circuit boards that Woz created under the name Apple Computers in 1976. circuit boards Woz was reluctant to do so. He had no thoughts of starting a business getting rich or changing the world. Nor did he see how such a business could make money. Although he was not materialistic he did not have money to lose. But Jobs with his typical intensity was sure there was a need for such a business. Electronic hobbyists he insisted would buy the device. And if the business failed at least they could say that they had tried. Wozniak recalls His idea was for us to make these preprinted circuit boards for 20 and sell them for 40 . . . Frankly I couldn t see how we would earn our money back. I figured we d have to invest about 1000 . . . To get the money back we d have to sell the board for 40 to fifty people. And I didn t think there were fifty people at