Jobs was still "iCEO" at the time, and the very first iMac was just barely pumping new life into a company that many thought near the brink of death.

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On October 11, 1999, not long after Jobs returned to a dying company and took on the title of interim CEO (or iCEO), he fielded an inquiry from a customer named David about iBook laptop shortages.

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