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I've read it in other histories, like Return to the Little Kingdom.


It's also hard to claim the account in "Return to the Little Kingdom" at https://archive.org/details/returntolittleki0000mori_u2z0/pa... is derived from that in "Accidental Empires" at https://archive.org/details/1996-accidental-empires/page/185... .

RttLK says:

> Since, in Scott’s mind, the computer gave birth to the business he assigned Wozniak number one, Jobs number two, Markkula number three, Fernandez number four, Holt number five, and Wigginton number six, reserved number seven for himself, and gave Espinosa number eight.

AE says:

> The badges included a name and an individual employee number, the latter based on the order in which workers joined the company. Steve Wozniak was declared employee number 1, Steve Jobs was number 2, and so on.

The former has more details and different intention for the initial numbering.




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