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And although they could scavenge most of the parts as well,
雖然他們也能弄到零件
they didn’t have the sort of skills to build them that we had acquired by training ourselves through building them.
但他們不具備制作經驗和技能
So we ended up helping them build most of their computers and it was really taking up all of our time.
我們只好替他們做，這事占用了我們所有時間
And we thought, you know, if we could make, what’s called printed circuit board,
于是我們想到制作印刷電路板
which is a piece of fabric glass with copper on both sides that etch to form the wire,
就是在鍍銅的玻璃纖維板兩面腐蝕出銅導線
so that you can build a computer, you know, you can build an Apple I in a few hours instead of 40 hours.
采用印刷電路板，只要幾小時就能做出一臺Apple I
If we only had one of those, we could sell them to all of our friends for,
有了這些，我們能把電路板以成本價賣給朋友
you know as much as it cost to make them, make our money back.
把錢賺回來這樣皆大歡喜
And everybody would be happy, we say, we get a life again.
我們也可以休息休息
So we did that. I sold my Volkswagen bus and Steve sold his calculator,
說干就干，我把玩具大眾車賣了，Woz賣了計算器
we got enough money to pay a friend of us to make the art work to make a printed circuit board.
我們湊夠了錢，請朋友設計印刷電路板
And we made some printed circuit boards, and we sold some to our friends,
電路板做出來后，賣給了朋友
and I was trying to sell the rest of them so we can get micro bus and calculator back….
我想把剩下的也賣了，把玩具車和計算器贖回來
And I walked into the first computer store in the world, which was the Byte Shop of a Mountain View,
我去了世界上第一家計算機商店，Mountain View的字節商店
I think, on El Camino. It metamorphosized within an adult bookstore, but at this point, it was the Byte Shop. And the person I ran into, I think his name was Paul Terrell.
那時它藏在一家成人書店里，我見到了老板Paul Terrell
He said ”You know, I’ll take 50 of those”, I said “this is great”.
Paul說“我預訂50套”，我說“太好了?！?/p>
“ But I want them fully assembled.”
但我要完全組裝好的計算機”
