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Apple computer's history is a classic American success story. The company designed and built what would become the personal computer, and was instrumental in the birth of this important global industry. In early 1970's two young teenagers, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak crossed paths and began a friendship and collaboration that eventually led to the founding of Apple Computer Co. in April of 1976. In basic terms Steve Wozniak was the engineer and Jobs the entrepreneur. The first machine designed and built by Wozniak was shown to folks at Hewlett-Packard and other companies who passed on purchasing or investing so Jobs and "Woz" decided to take it to the world themselves. At the time personal computing was limited to build-it-yourself kits sold through hobby stores and catalogs. The Apple team met with a retail outlet in CA called The Byte Shop, and agreed to build 500 machines on consignment to be sold on spec. They took the risk, and to skip ahead...