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I pretty doubt Steve was doing any soldering. He was the marketing guy. And of course his parents were putting the garage.

He was a hardware tech at Atari for his day job at this point.

And he wanted to leave that job. I wonder if Woz' books say anything about Jobs regarding their time in the garage.

Woz later claimed that story is a myth and that most of the soldering happened elsewhere, though he never gave any specifics as to where it was done.

And the product they were selling was a bare (well, populated, but not enclosed) PCB which the user was expected to wire up to power, a keyboard, and a monitor themselves. Long-term reliability was more the responsibility of the owner than the manufacturer.