One of the first versions of the original Apple II computer
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Allan Alcorn is an American engineer and computer specialist, chief engineer of the Atari computer game company, known, among other things, for creating Pong, one of the first video games.
Alcorn gave Jobs a start in the industry. He hired him at Atari, and then introduced him to potential investors and provided Apple computer chips at cost. Jobs later offered Alcorn a stake in the growing company, but Allan refused and chose instead a free Apple II computer.
Allan recalled the first meeting with Steve Jobs at the Atari headquarters: "The secretary called me: "We have a guy here. He's either crazy or he really knows how to do something." He looked rather scruffy. He talked incessantly, claiming to be familiar with the thirty-fifth model of the HP calculator. He claimed that he could make a stopwatch out of the forty-fifth HP model. Hinted that he worked for HP. I was impressed." Jobs, who did not yet understand the privileges offered by Silicon Valley companies, got a job as a technician with a salary of five dollars an hour. Friends were surprised that Steve managed to get a job. Bill Fernandez, a user interface architect and inventor, one of the first employees of Apple Computer, for example, believed that Jobs was not qualified enough: "He was probably a good salesman. But I don't think Jobs was such a cool engineer."
The exhibit is accompanied by a letter of origin from Allan Alcorn.
Translation of the letter from English to Russian: "In 1973, we were growing rapidly, and we needed talented staff. A hippie teenager who dropped out of Reed College applied for a job as a technician, and I hired him because he could solder, read circuits and did not claim a high salary. It was Steve Jobs. He soon saved up enough money to pay for a trip to India to meet his guru, and when he returned a year later, he asked to be returned to his former position. His friend Woz developed a single-board computer, which they called Apple, and first offered it to us at Atari for assembly, but we refused because we were busy creating a home video game application. We introduced them to the investor and made them integrated circuits at our expense to help them get started. Jobs offered me Apple shares, but I refused and said that I would like to get a free Apple II computer instead. A bad decision.
On the appointed day off, Jobs, Who, and half the company, maybe a dozen people, came to my house to give me my Apple II. We connected it to the projection TV in my living room, and Woz showed me how to program tiny basic. Soon I started programming and told my wife that I could make this computer do anything. She asked me to make him wash the dishes or wipe the floor, and I told her I couldn't do that, so she told me to get him out of the living room.
I used this Apple II as my main home workstation until I joined Apple Computer as an employee in 1986 and got my first Mac. I've had the computer with me since Steve gave it to me."
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