Apple's Early Days: Massive Oral History Shares Stories About Young Wozniak and Jobs

Apple's Early Days: Massive Oral History Shares Stories About Young Wozniak and Jobs

Apple's 50th anniversary is this week - and Fast Company's Harry McCracken just published an 11,000-word oral history with some fun stories from Apple's earliest days and the long and winding road to its very first home computers: Steve Wozniak, cofounder, Apple: I told my dad when I was in high school, "I'm going to own a computer someday." My dad said, "It costs as much as a house." And I sat there at the table - I remember right where we were…

‘How Apple Became Apple: The Definitive Oral History of the Company’s Earliest Days’

This feature from Harry McCracken is just spectacularly good. (And it's a gift link that'll get you past Fast Company's paywall.) 50 years is a long time and there are some key players in Apple's origin story who are gone - but because everyone was so young at the time, it's amazing how many of them are still alive. And, of course, in Chris Espinosa's case, still working at Apple: I was sitting there in the Byte Shop in Palo Alto on an Apple-1 w…