Chapter 19 garage factory

<img src="http://www.99lib.net/book/plate.pic/plate_96728_1.jpg" /> (The home in Sunnyvale, where Apple was born in the garage) The house of the Jobs family in Los Altos became the assembly plant for the 50 Apple I motherboards.The motherboard had to be delivered to the Byte Shop within 30 days because the payment term for parts was 30 days.Everyone joined—Jobs and Woz, and Daniel Kottke and his ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Holmes (who has left the cult she previously joined) , and Jobs' pregnant sister Patty.Patty's vacated bedroom, as well as the kitchen table, and the garage became a workplace.Holmes used to take jewelry classes, so she was assigned to solder chips. "Most of them I did well, but a few I dripped flux on," she said.This made Jobs very unhappy. He complained: "We don't have any extra chips." And it was true.He reassigned Holmes to the kitchen table to do the bookkeeping and paperwork, and he did the welding himself.After they finished a circuit board, it was handed over to Wozniak. "I'll test it by connecting it to a TV and a keyboard to see if it works," he said. "If it works, I'll put it in the box. Which pin is not plugged in."

Paul Jobs also stopped his side job of repairing cars so that a bunch of Apple guys could take over the entire garage.He kept a long old workbench in the garage, hung a computer schematic on a drywall wall he had just finished, and installed a row of labeled drawers for parts.He also built a high-temperature box with several heat lamps, so that he could test the state of the motherboard's operation overnight at high temperatures.Whenever his son had an outburst of temper (which was a common occurrence), Paul Jobs would channel some of his calm into him. "What's the matter?" he'd say, "Burn your ass?" In exchange, he'd occasionally borrow the TV, because it was the only one in the house, and he'd watch the finale of a football game.At this time, Jobs and Kottke would go out on the lawn and play guitar.

Jobs' mother didn't mind having her home filled with parts and guests, but she was frustrated by her son's increasingly bizarre eating habits.Jobs’ obsessive eating habits would always get her to roll her eyes,” Holmes recalls. “She just wanted her son to be healthy, and Jobs would make weird declarations like: ‘I’m a fruit eater, and I only eat food. Leaves picked by virgins by moonlight. '" After the 12 assembled motherboards passed Wozniak's inspection, Jobs sent them to Byte Sh<q>九九书网</q>op.Terrell was a little surprised.There is no power supply, no case, no monitor and no keyboard.He was not expecting such a product.But Jobs stared at him so hard that he agreed to take delivery and pay for it.

Thirty days later, Apple is close to profitability. "The actual cost of these motherboards was lower than we expected, because I got a good deal on the parts," Jobs recalled, "so we sold 50 motherboards to the Byte Shop and recovered enough to cover the material cost of 100 motherboards." By <var>nine-nine-cang-book-net</var> selling the remaining 50 yuan to friends and colleagues at the Homebrew Computer Club, they can actually realize a profit. Elizabeth Holmes officially became Apple's part-time bookkeeper at $4 an hour, returning from San Francisco once a week to figure out how to move the numbers from Jobs' checkbook into the ledger.To look like a legitimate company, Jobs rented an answering phone service, and all messages were forwarded to his mother.Ron Wayne designed the logo for the company, using ornate line drawings in the style of Victorian graphic novels, depicting Newton sitting under a tree, framed with a quote from Wordsworth: "A soul , sailing forever alone in strange oceans of thought.” It’s an odd adage, one that fits Ron Wayne more than Apple.Perhaps a more apt line comes from Wordsworth's description of the initiator of the French Revolution: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive/ But to be young was very heaven!)” As Woz later remarked happily: “I think we’re part of the greatest revolution in history, and I’m glad I was a part of it.”

<img src="http://www.99lib.net/book/plate.pic/plate_96728_2.jpg" /> (Apple I) Woz had already started <cite>www.99lib.net</cite> thinking about the next generation of machines, so they called the model at that time the Apple I (Apple I).Jobs and Woz kept running down the King's Road, hoping that electronics stores would sell their computers.In addition to the 50 sold to the Byte Shop and 50 sold to friends, they started producing another 100 for retail stores.Sure enough, there was another conflict between the two of them: Woz wanted to sell at cost price, while Jobs wanted to make a good profit.Jobs won.He set a retail price that was almost 3 times the cost, adding 33% to the wholesale price of $500 Terrell and other stores paid, or $666.66. "I've always loved repeating numbers," Wozniak said. "My 'call for jokes' service is 255-6666." "Demon's Number" from the Book of Revelation.But they were quickly met with protests, especially after the number 666 was highlighted in that year's hit film The Omen. (In 2010, an original Apple I sold for $213,000 at a Christie's auction.)

The first feature story on the new machine appeared in the July 1976 issue of Interface magazine, a now-defunct magazine for amateurs.Jobs and his friends were still assembling machines at home, but reports already referred to him as "marketing director" and "former Atari personal consultant."It makes Apple sound like a real company. "Steve spoke to many computer clubs to keep his finger on the pulse of this nascent industry," the report said, citing Jobs as explaining, "If we can understand their needs, feelings, and motivations, we can make Respond correctly and produce what they need."

<img src="http://www.99lib.net/book/plate.pic/plate_96728_3.jpg" /> (Daniel Kottke and Jobs demonstrating the Apple I at the PC Fest in Atlantic City in 1976) At that time, they already had competitors outside of Altai, most notably the IMSAI 8080 and Processor Technology Corporation's SOL-20.The latter was designed by Lee Felsenstein and Gordon French of the Homebrew Computer Club. On Labor Day weekend in 1976, the first annual Personal Computer Festival was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in an old <cite>九九旺书网</cite> on a board that was beginning to crumble at the time. on the way.Everyone has the opportunity to present their products.Jobs and Wozniak took a TWA flight to Philadelphia, keeping the Apple I in one cigar box and the second-generation prototype Woz was working on in another.Felsenstein, sitting a row behind them, saw the Apple I and called it "pretty mediocre," a comment that demoralized Woz. “We heard them talking in very advanced business jargon,” he recalls, “using acronyms that were similar to business jargon that we had never heard before.”

Woz spends most of his time in his hotel room, working on his new prototype.A table was assigned to Apple at the back of the exhibit hall, and Woz was too shy to stand there and introduce the product.Kottke, who was a student at Columbia University at the time, took the train from Manhattan and sat at his desk while Jobs walked around observing competitors.What he saw didn't impress him.He was convinced that Wozniak was the best circuit engineer, and that the Apple I (and of course its second generation) could absolutely beat all opponents in terms of functionality.However, the SOL-20 has a more attractive appearance.It comes in a sleek metal box that comes with the keyboard, power supply, and cables.It looks like this is a product designed for adults.In contrast, the Apple I was as sleazy as its inventor.