[vidarh]

The myth I'm referring to is that if you speak to geeks about the inception of the home computer, people often claim Apple and/or specifically Woz created either the first one, or the first mass market one.

To give a concrete example: Movies such as Pirates of Silicon Valley which presented the first West Coast Computer Fayre as some sort of triumph for Apple where people where flocking to their stand, when contemporary accounts, including press accounts, makes it clear that the big attention was around Commodore at the time, and attention for Apple was lackluster at best.

That Apple deserved credit for making it big later is not in dispute, but we're talking about history here.

And they receive far too much credit for their purported impact in the early years, when they were selling an over-priced (for the market at the time) product in tiny quantities while other people and other companies were laying the groundwork for the home computer market.