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2013.4.22To fill the order, they needed about $15,000 worth of parts. Allen Baum, the third prankster from Homestead High, and his father agreed to loan them $5,000. Jobs tried to borrow more from a bank in Los Altos, but the manager looked at him and, not surprisingly, declined. He went to Haltek Supply and offered an equity stake in Apple in return for the parts, but the owner decided they were “a couple of young, scruffy-looking guys,” and declined. Alcorn at Atari would sell them chips only if they paid cash up front. Finally, Jobs was able to convince the manager of Cramer Electronics to call Paul Terrell to confirm that he had really committed to a $25,000 order. Terrell was at a conference when he heard over a loudspeaker that he had an emergency call (Jobs had been persistent). The Cramer manager told him that two scruffy kids had just walked in waving an order from the Byte Shop. Was it real? Terrell confirmed that it was, and the store agreed to front Jobs the parts on thirty-day credit./learning/710834423/decline [diklain] ? n. 衰微, 跌落; 晚年 v. 降低, 婉谢/learning/929685740/scruffy [skr?fi] ? adj. 不整齐的, 肮脏的, 破旧的/learning/929685743/loan [l?un] ? n. 贷款, 借出, 债权人 v. 借, 供应货款, 借给/learning/907955900/stake [steik] ? n. 木桩,赌注,股份 vt. 打赌,下赌注；用桩支撑/learning/929685749/surprisingly [s?praizi?li] ? adv. 惊人地(意外地)/learning/553225559/equity [ekwiti] ? n. 权益，产权，(无固定利息的)股票 n. 公平, 公正/learning/929685755/prankster [pr??kst?] ? n. 顽皮的人, 爱开玩笑的人/learning/677075552/homestead [h?umsted;h?um?sted] ? n. 家园, 田产/learning/584039324/conference [k?nf?r?ns] ? n. 会议/learning/929685881/loudspeaker [laudspi:k?] ? n. 扬声器, 喇叭/learning/929685740/scruffy [skr?fi] ? adj. 不整齐的, 肮脏的, 破旧的/learning/929685887/persistent [p?sist?nt] ? adj. 固执的,坚持的,连续的/learning/929685890/waving [weivi?] ? n. 挥手，起伏 adj. 波浪状的动词wave的现在分词/learning/754613660/credit [kredit] ? n. 信用, 荣誉, 贷款, 学分 v. 归功于, 赞颂, 信任/learning/628239563/convince [k?nvins] ? vt. 说服, 使...相信/learning/745456139/commit [k?mit] ? v. 委托(托付), 犯罪, 作...事, 承诺 [计算机] 委托file