He knows so little that he was really his son, Matt Spergel, who remembers the good friendship he came to develop with the future co-founders of Apple, Steve Jobs y Steve Wozniak. Marty was called “the scrap” because he was able to get spare parts from any product, someone ready to find authentic jewels among the forgotten electronic discharges. But let's not go. It all starts in a private club selected.
Martin J. “Marty” Spergel and the HomeBrew IT club
Martin Spergel took place at the first meeting of the Homebrew computer club on March 5, 1975. As soon as each of the 31 members gave an Intel 8008 a reality of Palmaria.
These meetings were the germ from which everything was born. There, they attended figures like Bill Fernandez or Chris Espinosa and several years later, he would house the ideas of the founders of Google.
Like Steve Wozniak himself examined, it was the creative heart of the world: “The most important day of my life … Both on Wednesday evening?” The 1970s. The whole ointment of Silicon Valley met for a few hours.
Where does the friendship of Steve Jobs and Marty Spergel come from
But that does not answer the initial question: who is Marty? At first glance, it looks like it was no one linked to Apple. Its involvement is in fact by a trade agreementFor its small business M&R Electronics. The “R”, by the way, comes from his wife Rona. Marty had developed an interesting portfolio of contacts and had strong alliances with manufacturers, but also with hackers exchanged by radio frequency for their projects.
M&R has become an important partner thanks to the production of its Soup'R'Mod, a device that allowed Apple II connection to the TV via the composed video output and therefore to take advantage of the TV as a monitor. This pot allowed Apple to skip the restrictions imposed by the FCC (Federal Commission for Communications). Steve Jobs told Martin that this device could be sold well, around 50 units per month, and guarantee a constant flow of income. Spergel estimated that he came to sell around 400,000 units only from this model.
When Apple was born as a business on April 1, 1976, Marty Spergel was a rescuer. Steve Jobs personally asked to broadcast a badge which will formalize the relationship between Apple and M&R. And so it was done, with a special card. On April 20, 1983, Apple identified it as “consultant (friend)” with the number of employees 3.2-among the 3 and 4, that is to say between Mike Markkula (founding partner) and Bill Fernandez (first payroll worker).
Years later, Martin would take advantage of these alliances with Cl 9, the to start up Responsible for the first universal and 100% programmable control, founded by Steve Wozniak in 1984. And a lot of eye, because Woz had so much love and so much faith in this project which, to tell the truth, to It was the pulley that motivated him to leave Apple aside. But that's another story and we will tell you at another time.
He does not know the average Apple fan of this special figure. Matt Spergel, his son and who followed his father's inheritance, responsible for the assessment of this key figure during the first years with the bite apple. As the first person tells, Matt was also linked to the Homebrew Computer Club since his own birth. For him, the historic stories of Steve Jobs are like listening to an ancle anecdotes, someone you have a simple phone call.
An old version of this article was initially published on 02/19/2024.
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