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  Kevin: You went to a lot of conferences, early computer conferences, I assume?
 
  Kevin: You went to a lot of conferences, early computer conferences, I assume?
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  Wayne: How about Steve Jobs? Maybe you read my thing on that, where I heard about the Apple computer, so my wife and I stopped by to visit him. Took me out...well, first he called Steve Wozniak over, who designed and built the Apple I.
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  Wayne: How about Steve Jobs? Maybe you read my thing on that, where I heard about the Apple computer, so my wife and I stopped by to visit him. Took me out... well, first he called Steve Wozniak over, who designed and built the Apple I.
    
  They took me out to the garage and showed it to me and he said, "What do you think?" I said, "I think you've got a winner." I said, "Up 'til now, all of our computers had a motherboard. You plugged in the processor. You plugged in the memory. You plugged in the communication. You plugged in the keyboard." I said, "You've got it all on one board. That's the way to go."
 
  They took me out to the garage and showed it to me and he said, "What do you think?" I said, "I think you've got a winner." I said, "Up 'til now, all of our computers had a motherboard. You plugged in the processor. You plugged in the memory. You plugged in the communication. You plugged in the keyboard." I said, "You've got it all on one board. That's the way to go."
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  He said, "Well I'm going to sell it direct like we've been doing the Apple I." I said, "Well, we've got some computer  stores now. Why don't you sell it through those?" "Oh, they'd take a discount. No, we're not going to do that."
 
  He said, "Well I'm going to sell it direct like we've been doing the Apple I." I said, "Well, we've got some computer  stores now. Why don't you sell it through those?" "Oh, they'd take a discount. No, we're not going to do that."
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  I said, "Alright, here's what you do first thing Steve, first thing. Hire a marketing manager." He hired a marketing manager, Mark Hula and learned it [laughs] and they sold through stores. The result was a very successful company.
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  I said, "Alright, here's what you do first thing Steve, first thing. Hire a marketing manager." So he hired a marketing manager, Mike Markkula and learned it [laughs] and they sold through stores. The result was a very successful company.
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If I'd been able to get through the wall around Steve Jobs, he'd still be alive. I think he had pancreatic cancer. It's so easy to cure if you change to raw food. I'm 90 doing raw food.
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If I'd been able to get through the wall around Steve Jobs, he'd still be alive. I think he had pancreatic cancer. It's so easy to cure if you change to raw food. I'm 90 doing raw food.
    
  Kevin: I'm sorry?
 
  Kevin: I'm sorry?
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  Wayne: Oh, of which? [laughs]
 
  Wayne: Oh, of which? [laughs]
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  Kevin: Let's go with Microcomputing.
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  Kevin: Let's go with microcomputing.
    
  Wayne: OK.
 
  Wayne: OK.
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  I had a whole team of them in my 40 room house there, what had been a bowling alley part of the house we did for production and so forth. We all produced there. Then I added the other buildings, the one next door for the color computer and so forth.
 
  I had a whole team of them in my 40 room house there, what had been a bowling alley part of the house we did for production and so forth. We all produced there. Then I added the other buildings, the one next door for the color computer and so forth.
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  Anyway, I kept adding more buildings. The books came out of north Peterborough and we put out quite of few books there of software and other things.
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  Anyway, I kept adding more buildings. The books came out of North Peterborough and we put out quite of few books there of software and other things.
    
  Kevin: Type in software books?
 
  Kevin: Type in software books?
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