"I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II."

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"I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II."

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"I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here."

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"In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before."

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