Steve Jobs: One Last Thing Page #2

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As Jobs and I were

walking over,

I noticed Woz out

washing his car,

and I said, "hey, Woz.

Um, come over and meet Steve."

So, "Steve, meet Steve."

And this is where

it happened,

basically right here.

Woz and Jobs became

inseparable friends,

but their first venture was not

a computer.

The pair developed

an electronics Kit

mimicking telephone

router codes

to make free calls

around the world.

You know, when you make

a long distance phone call

in the background you hear,

"do do do do do"?

Those are the telephone computers

actually signing each other,

sending information to each

other to set up your call.

And there used to be

a way to fool

the entire telephone system

into thinking

you were

a telephone computer.

You could, you know,

call from a pay phone,

go to white plains, new York,

take a satellite to Europe

take a cable to turkey,

um, come back to Los Angeles,

and you'd go around the world

3 or 4 times and call

the payphone next door,

shout in the phone,

and be about 30 seconds, it

would come out the other phone.

The pair quickly moved

on from phone-jacking for fun

to creating computers,

building the prototype

of the very first Apple.

It's a fond memory

for Steve Wozniak.

He was always thinking

about certain technology,

the early products that got

developed, the building parts,

what those might lead to

in our future,

and he was a always pushing

me as an engineer...

"Could you possibly

add this someday,

could you possibly add

that someday?"

Yes, yes, yes, I could,"

thinking, "no.

It's way, way off,"

but eventually we all did.

In those early days,

Woz and Jobs took their creation

to the home-brew computer club,

an early computer club,

an early computer users' group

in silicon valley,

where it quickly attracted

attention from their peers.

I met both Steves,

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

at a meeting

of the home-brew computer club

in Palo Alto.

Our first meeting

was really simple.

It was in the parking lot,

and I helped them

unload Woz's FIA and carried in what

I guess was the first Apple I

to show it off

to the assembled multitudes.

When that same first

Apple I was auctioned in 2010,

it attracted

even more attention.

It heralds

the home computing revolution.

This is the first computer

where you use a keyboard

and a screen

to enter and read data.

Selling

for 110,000.

From the hippie days

of 1970s California,

a handful of teenage geeks

emerged to change

how we work, play,

and communicate with each other.

Founders can be

divided into two camps.

There are hippies,

and there are nerds,

and Jobs was definitely

the hippie,

and Woz was the nerd.

And the hippie has

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