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Steve Jobs' adoptive father was acquaintances with HP employees. That's how he got the founder's phone number.




I read it was in the phone book. If you’re too young to have experienced this, it may surprise you that phone numbers were typically publicly listed in books that were mailed out annually, in those times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory



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