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Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne[9] to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. They were hand-built by Steve Wozniak[10][11] in the living room of Jobs' parents' home, and the Apple I was first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club.[12] Eventually 200 computers were built. The Apple I was sold as a motherboard (with CPU, RAM, and basic textual-video chips) — not what is today considered a complete personal computer.[13] The user was required to provide two different AC input voltages (the manual recommended specific transformers), wire an ASCII keyboard (not provided with the computer) to a DIP connector (providing logic inverter and alpha lock chips in some cases), and to wire the video output pins to a monitor or to an RF modulator if a TV set was used. The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 and was market-priced at $666.66.[14][15][16][17] Wozniak came up with the $666.66 price because he liked repeating digits.[18]
Jobs approached a local computer store, The Byte Shop, which ordered fifty units and paid US$500 for each unit after much persuasion. He then ordered components from Cramer Electronics, a national electronic parts distributor. Using a variety of methods, including borrowing space from friends and family and selling various items including a Volkswagen Type 2 bus, Jobs managed to secure the parts needed while Wozniak and Ronald Wayne assembled the Apple I.[19]
Apple was incorporated January 3, 1977[4] without Wayne, who sold his share of the company back to Jobs and Wozniak, and with Mike Markkula, who provided essential business expertise and funding of US $250,000 during the formation of Apple.[20]
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