![]() So one day-it was daytime, I remember-Bill called Steve and had him come over to his house. He likes to do pranks like you do, and he’s also into building electronics like you are.” But one day Bill told me, “Hey, there’s someone you should meet. I was four years ahead of him in school so I didn’t know him he was closer to Bill Fernandez’s age. Examples of that teamwork are all over this story. What one of us found difficult, the other often accomplished pretty handily. Our introverted and extroverted personalities (guess who’s which) really helped us in those days. A year later I would meet Steve Jobs, who showed me how brave he was by scoring free chips just by calling sales reps. I never had the courage to ask chip companies for free samples of what were then expensive chips. It was designed to calculate bomb trajectories for the military during World War II. The ENIAC- which stood for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer-was the first true computer by most people’s definition. But what I saw was an article about the ENIAC and a picture of it. Back then, back in 1960, writing about computers wasn’t common at all. ![]() I found this article about computers in one of the old engineering journals my dad had hanging around. At about this time, there was another lucky accident. ![]()
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