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In the year 1977, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak took the first steps of a relationship that would eventually dominate the personal computer industry. The marriage of Steve Jobs's virtually bulletproof Apple 1 with Woz's premium hardware ("Apple 2") was an instant success, and soon gave birth to a host of clone manufacturers who later became industry giants in their own right: IBM, Commodore, and Tandy, to name a few. Unfortunately, the explosive growth had the side effect of completely saturating the slowly emerging market. While plenty of satisfied customers were happily number crunching with VisiCalc, many manufacturers including Apple themselves were left with mountains of unsold inventory. It was until Steve Jobs who inadvertently hit upon the answer when he pondered aloud at an executive meeting:
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