Steve Wozniak

They borrowed money from Allen's father for parts.

In January 1976, they set up shop in Steve Jobs' parents' garage, hiring friends to plug in chips into sockets for a dollar a board.

Wozniak tested each one.

If it worked, they boxed it.

If not, he'd find the problem, fix it, then box it.

Jobs would drive the batches and collect cash.

They priced it at $666.66 because Wozniak liked repeating digits.

Neither of them knew the number of satanic connections until angry letters started arriving.

Within months, they'd sold 150 computers.

Other companies were now copying the Apple I's keyboard design and selling thousands.

But Wozniak had already designed something better, the Apple II, and it was 10 times more powerful than the Apple I, and he knew it.

Wozniak started designing the Apple II as soon as the Apple I was complete.

This wasn't just an upgrade, this was a revolution.

Color built in from the ground up, not tacked on later.

Half as many chips, but twice as fast.

High-resolution graphics, sound, game paddles, and basic language built right in.

The Apple II was the first low-cost computer which, out of the box, you didn't have to be a geek to use, Wozniak wrote.

But they needed money to build it.

Despite selling thousands of dollars worth of computers, Wozniak still worked out of his apartment and jobs from his bedroom.

They started showing the Apple II to potential investors in Jobs' garage.