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Recently, at what was billed as a 25th Anniversary of the Commodore 64, the story was told about how the two Steves invited Commodore to their garage to talk about Commodore building and selling Apple II computers with the Steves being employees.

Must have happened in 1976, since Apple was incorporated in 1977, and were quite out of the garage by 1982.

Using Apple’s summarize command, here is the gist of the the article:

Back in the dawn of the PC era, Commodore International rejected a proposal from legendary Apple Inc. founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs to resell the Apple II computer.
…Apple was just one of several companies to approach influential Commodore at the time to sell PCs, said Wozniak during an energetic panel discussion at a 25th anniversary celebration of the Commodore 64 held last Monday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.
…”Chuck Peddle from Commodore came to the garage, and he was one of about three people we showed the Apple II prototype,” Wozniak said.
…”Steve [Jobs] started saying all we want to do was offer [Apple II] for a few hundred thousand dollars, and we will get jobs at Commodore, we’ll get some stock, and we’ll be in charge of running the program,” Wozniak said.
…Commodore decided to build a monochrome computer saying it could do it more quickly and thought at the time that would be a better course for the company, he said.
…Ultimately, Apple managed to survive the threat posed by Commodore, which filed for bankruptcy in 1994 and liquidated its assets, even after becoming the first to sell a million PCs.
…Wozniak said that Apple and Commodore users generated excitement, especially among PC user groups who would discuss what they could do to tweak the PCs and make them expandable. (Woz always gives credit to user groups.)

Read the full article here.