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Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, which outlines, creates and offers to the buyer hardware, machine programming and PCs. Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs were classmates in secondary school. Both had been intrigued by gadgets and both had been considered outcasts. They stayed in touch after graduation and both ended up dropping out of school and landing jobs for organizations in Silicon Valley. (Woz for Hewlett-Packard, Jobs for Atari) (Company history) Another workstation club that may be vital to Apple's manufacturing began simply with a hand-written notice on notice sheets at some local universities reading " AMATEUR COMPUTER USER GROUP AND COMPUTER CLUB. Is it accurate to say that you are building your own computerized workstation? are you buying time with a time-demanding administration?” (Lusted page 23) The main gathering of the Homebrew Computer Club took place on March 5, 1975, in a carport in Menlo Park, California. It was following these meetings that Wozniak had an idea: he wanted to create an easy-to-understand desktop PC that would be accessible to people who were not workstation hobbyists and would not want to produce their own machine. (Lusted page 23) Wozniak had been tinkering with the workstation design for quite a while when, in 1976, he outlined what could become the Apple I. Employments, who had an eye for what was next, requested that he and Wozniak attempted to offer the machine, and on April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was conceived(Company History)Hobbyists stopped considering the Apple I except...... half of the document...... March 5, 1975, in a carport in Menlo Park. Wozniak had been tinkering with the workstation design for quite a while when, in 1976, he outlined what the Apple I could become. Hobbyists came to think of the Apple I as not particularly important, and Apple didn't begin to take off until 1977, when the Apple II appeared at a nearby workstation swap show. With increased business, on the other hand, there was an expansion in the size of the company and in 1980, when the Apple III was launched. In 1981, things got a little more complicated, due to the plane crash Wozniak was in. In 1983, Jobs began courting John Sculley, then president of Pepsi-Cola. In April it paid off, and Scully became president and CEO of Apple. Despite being a successful businessman, it soon became clear that Sculley didn't know much about the PC business..