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Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs holding an Apple I circuit board in 1976
IBM Personal Computer
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
American businessman
A candid photograph of American computer programmer and entrepreneur Bill Gates, smiling, taken in 2011.
Bill Gates
American computer programmer, businessman, and philanthropist
Steve Wozniak in 2014
Steve Wozniak
American electronics engineer
Ellison, Larry
Larry Ellison
American business executive
Jony Ive
Jony Ive
British designer and executive
Charles P. Thacker
American computer scientist

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