Steve Wozniak

So Jobs proposed selling printed circuit boards.

People could buy the board, solder their own chips, and have a working computer in days instead of weeks.

Make them for $20, sell them for $40.

Wozniak hesitated.

They'd need $1,000 just to get the boards printed.

They'd have to sell at least 50 to break even.

Were there even 50 people who'd want one?

They were sitting in Steve Jobs' car when he said the words that changed everything.

Well, even if we lose our money, we'll have a company.

For once in our lives, we'll have a company.

That convinced me, Woz wrote, to be two best friends starting a company.

Wow, I knew right then that I'd do it.

How could I not?

The revolution had started in a garage with 30 engineers, and it had moved through Wozniak's mind in one night.

Now, it was about to become Apple Computer, though neither Steve knew that at the time.

But first, Woz had to tell HP.

He was, after all, their employee.

To raise $1,000 they needed for printed circuit boards, Wozniak sold his HP65 calculator for $500.

Jobs sold his VW van for a few hundred more.

They needed a name.