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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. | + | 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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| 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. | + | 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. | + | 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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| 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. | + | Kevin: Let's go with microcomputing. |
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| 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. | + | 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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| Kevin: Type in software books? | | Kevin: Type in software books? |