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 Homebrew who’d buy the board.
. . . But Steve had a good argument. . . . He said—and I can
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