I've been working my way through the beginnings of the personal computing industry, starting in late 1974 with the introduction of the Altair 8800. For several episodes now, I've been talking about computers that most people have never heard of, from companies that are long extinct.
But now I'm at the start of 1976, and a curious new company has formed out of one man's desire to create a computer for himself, and another man's desire to turn that computer into money.
That company not only survived, but today it's the third-largest company in the world, worth over three trillion dollars.
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