in early years in my life I was heavy
into electronics I stumbled in the ham
radio
you built all the pieces and soldered
the parts together and you had to learn
a lot of theory to get a license so I
had my ham radio license in elementary
school I was building these fantastic
school projects and I stumbled into
computer technology in a journal there
were no books there were no classes
available back then it was such an
accident for a nine-year-old to stumble
on a journal and start learning about
ones and zeros and I just told myself at
that very young age this was the most
interesting stuff I had ever discovered
there was gonna be my heart’s passion
for the rest of my life I would never
have a job in it I didn’t think there
were jobs in computers back then
computers were further out than space
science you heard about them less on the
news they were huge monstrous machines
and nobody else around me was doing this
stuff what excited me about the computer
itself is the fact that computers were
kind of attributed to being the smartest
things that they could do jobs that no
humans could do they were Superman stuff
it was the people that were in the
homebrew Computer Club that attracted me
here were a lot of people that were like
myself and they wanted a piece of
technology to serve as a tool of a
revolution where the young person who
was shy who was unknown who meant
nothing but new electronics and new
computers was now going to be valuable
to the future of society in the world so
what I did was I had this idea to build
the Apple one computer very affordably I
gave away my computer design for free to
everyone I gave them my code listings I
helped other people build their own and
that was when Steve Jobs came to a club
meeting whenever he saw interest he knew
that was money Steve was the total
businessman he wanted the company I just
wanted to build cool products the only
obstacle I had was I didn’t want to
start a company on the side of the
company that I worked for and loved and
was loyal to and would never leave you
Packard cuz we built products for
engineers and I was an engineer at heart
so I proposed it to HP first and I
pleaded I wanted them to make this
personal computer and they were so
intrigued by the idea and they turned it
down and it’s very very lucky because
they probably would have built a very
boring product for engineers to use
rather than an exciting interesting
colorful animated game product for
normal human beings
into electronics I stumbled in the ham
radio
you built all the pieces and soldered
the parts together and you had to learn
a lot of theory to get a license so I
had my ham radio license in elementary
school I was building these fantastic
school projects and I stumbled into
computer technology in a journal there
were no books there were no classes
available back then it was such an
accident for a nine-year-old to stumble
on a journal and start learning about
ones and zeros and I just told myself at
that very young age this was the most
interesting stuff I had ever discovered
there was gonna be my heart’s passion
for the rest of my life I would never
have a job in it I didn’t think there
were jobs in computers back then
computers were further out than space
science you heard about them less on the
news they were huge monstrous machines
and nobody else around me was doing this
stuff what excited me about the computer
itself is the fact that computers were
kind of attributed to being the smartest
things that they could do jobs that no
humans could do they were Superman stuff
it was the people that were in the
homebrew Computer Club that attracted me
here were a lot of people that were like
myself and they wanted a piece of
technology to serve as a tool of a
revolution where the young person who
was shy who was unknown who meant
nothing but new electronics and new
computers was now going to be valuable
to the future of society in the world so
what I did was I had this idea to build
the Apple one computer very affordably I
gave away my computer design for free to
everyone I gave them my code listings I
helped other people build their own and
that was when Steve Jobs came to a club
meeting whenever he saw interest he knew
that was money Steve was the total
businessman he wanted the company I just
wanted to build cool products the only
obstacle I had was I didn’t want to
start a company on the side of the
company that I worked for and loved and
was loyal to and would never leave you
Packard cuz we built products for
engineers and I was an engineer at heart
so I proposed it to HP first and I
pleaded I wanted them to make this
personal computer and they were so
intrigued by the idea and they turned it
down and it’s very very lucky because
they probably would have built a very
boring product for engineers to use
rather than an exciting interesting
colorful animated game product for
normal human beings
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