> Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming littl

> Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other's garages Umm...Apple was found in '77. Laptops didn't exist then. Steve Wozniak worked for HP and Steve Jobs worked for Atari when Apple was founded. And IBM didn't even have a facility in Silicon Valley back then. Am I missing something?