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kelvin0 | 4 years ago

They've come a long way from building personal computers in Wozniak's garage.

In the process they've transformed into the 'big brother' from their 1984 T.V. ad campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI

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Someone|4 years ago

It was the garage of Jobs’ parents, and not even that. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/05/steve-woz...:

The commonly shared tale is that Apple was not only founded in the garage of 2066 Crist Drive in Los Altos, California – Jobs’s family home – but that the first Macs were designed and built in the garage as the company was bootstrapped.

“The garage is a bit of a myth,” Wozniak told Businessweek. “We did no designs there, no breadboarding, no prototyping, no planning of products. We did no manufacturing there.”

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“The garage didn’t serve much purpose, except it was something for us to feel was our home,” said Wozniak. “We had no money. You have to work out of your home when you have no money.”