Apple Inc History

History Apple computer was founded on April 1st, 1976 by Steven Jobs, Steven Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Prior to the Apple’s beginnings,Jobs had worked at Hewlett-Packard and the video game company Atari Inc. Wozniak also worked at HP where the two first met in 1972. It was Jobs who told his future partner about his idea of personal computers. The two began their journey in 1975 while working on the Apple I in Job’s bedroom. Wozniak later admitted that the project was more of a hobby than a business venture at first. In Apple Confidential; The Definite History of the World’s Most Colorful Company he said “it never crossed my mind to sell computers. It was Steve who said, ’Let’s hold them in the air and sell a few.’”Along the way they had help with their ideas from members of the Homebrew Computer Club, a computer hobbyist group. Their first product the Apple I, a circuit board, was completed in early 1976. Originally Jobs and Wozniak each tried to pitch the product to their respective employers at Atari and HP, but both were turned down. Before they could begin selling it Wozniak had to be released from HP to legally produce computers. Around the same time Ron Wayne joined Jobs and Wozniak in exchange for 10 percent of the company. Wayne designed the original Apple logo showing Isaac Newton sitting underneath an apple tree. The trio’s first contract came from Paul Jay Terrell owner of the Byte Shop, possibly the first computer retail store in the country. Terrell agreed to buy 50 computers for $500 each. There was one problem with the deal. They originally planned to simply make circuit boards and sell them by themselves. They had no intentions of fully equipping a computer, nor the funds. This didn’t stop Jobs who immediately obtained a three month $5,000 loan, as well as convincing suppliers for credit on $15,000 worth of parts. In the midst of this deal Wayne’s partnership with Apple was cut short as he resigned from Apple in 1976, the same year he joined,