to the owner of a local electronic equipment store called the Byte Shop, and the proprietor ordered twenty-five units. They received marketing advice from a friend, who was a retired CEO from Intel, and he helped them with marketing strategies for selling their new product. To start the company they sold their most valuable possessions. Jobs sold his Volkswagen microbus, and Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator, these sales raised $1,300 to start their new company. With that capital base and credit begged from local electronics suppliers, they set up their first production line. Jobs encouraged Wozniak to quit his job at Hewlett-Packard to become vice president in charge of research and development of this new company called Apple Computers. The origin of Apple's name had been disputed. Some say that it is an allusion to the Beatle's record company and others say it is to a summer that Jobs spent picking apples in Oregon. Their company logo was an apple with a bite missing from it, a play on words of the computer term &q
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