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type of person who shows up at a garage

on a rainy Wednesday night to talk

about microchips. But it’s an important

first step.

The young man, whose name is

Stephen Wozniak, is thrilled to hear of

the Altair. He’s been obsessed with

electronics since the age of three. When

he was eleven he came across a

magazine article about the first computer,

the ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical

Integrator and Computer, and ever

since, his dream has been to build a

machine so small and easy to use that

you could keep it at home. And now,

inside this garage, here is news that

The Dream—he thinks of it with capital

letters—might one day materialize.

As he’ll later recall in his memoir,

iWoz, where most of this story appears,

Wozniak is also excited to be surrounded

by kindred spirits. To the

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