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by thoughtsimple 1216 days ago
The company was two guys soldering in a garage.
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Woz later claimed that story is a myth and that most of the soldering happened elsewhere, though he never gave any specifics as to where it was done.
And the product they were selling was a bare (well, populated, but not enclosed) PCB which the user was expected to wire up to power, a keyboard, and a monitor themselves. Long-term reliability was more the responsibility of the owner than the manufacturer.
I pretty doubt Steve was doing any soldering. He was the marketing guy. And of course his parents were putting the garage.
He was a hardware tech at Atari for his day job at this point.
And he wanted to leave that job. I wonder if Woz' books say anything about Jobs regarding their time in the garage.