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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:


This view was vocally supported by Steve Wozniak, who observed:


Without so much as another word spoken, it was understood by the whole room that Steve Jobs would begin the process of systematically removing all the improvements it had made to Applesoft Basic it had purchased from Microsoft in 1978, and proceeded to initiate the development of a new software product without the involvement of Steve Wozniak.