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2013.4.26Woz had already begun thinking about the next version of the machine, so they started calling their current model the Apple I. Jobs and Woz would drive up and down Camino Real trying to get the electronics stores to sell it. In addition to the fifty sold by the Byte Shop and almost fifty sold to friends, they were building another hundred for retail outlets. Not surprisingly, they had contradictory impulses: Wozniak wanted to sell them for about what it cost to build them, but Jobs wanted to make a serious profit. Jobs prevailed. He picked a retail price that was about three times what it cost to build the boards and a 33% markup over the $500 wholesale price that Terrell and other stores paid. The result was $666.66. “I was always into repeating digits,” Wozniak said. “The phone number for my dial-a-joke service was 255-6666.” Neither of them knew that in the Book of Revelation 666 symbolized the “number of the beast,” but they soon were faced with complaints, especially after 666 was featured in that year’s hit movie, The Omen. (In 2010 one of the original Apple I computers was sold at auction by Christie’s for $213,000.)/learning/945134120/wholesale [h?ulseil] ? n. 批发 adj. 批发的, 大规模的, 草率的 adv. 大规模, 照批发, 草率地/learning/945134123/contradictory [?k?ntr?dikt?ri] ? adj. 反驳的,反对的,抗辩的 n. 正反对,矛盾对立/learning/699232682/outlet [autlet, -lit] ? n. 出口, 出路, 通风口, 批发商店/learning/941319956/byte [bait] ? n. 字节, 8位元组/learning/945134132/retail [ri:teil] ? n. 零售 vt. 零售 adj. 零售的 adv. 以零售形式/learning/945134135/prevail [priveil] ? vi. 获胜, 盛行, 主导/learning/599331680/board [b?:d] ? n. 木板, 甲板, 董事会 n. 伙食; 舞台, 演员的职业; 船舷 vt. 登(飞机、车、船等); 有偿提供食宿; 用木板覆盖 vi. 搭伙/learning/945134258/digit [did?it] ? n. 数字,位数,指头/learning/945134261/omen [?umen] ? n. 征兆, 预兆 vt. 预示/learning/945134264/auction [?:k??n] ? n. 拍卖 vt. 拍卖/learning/945134267/revelation [?revilei??n] ? n. 揭露,泄露,发觉/learning/945134270/complaint [k?mpleint] ? n. 抱怨/learning/945134273/Christie [kristi] ? n. 作制动转弯 Christie n. 克里斯蒂（姓氏）/learning/94513