Steve Wozniak
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809 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 21 May
Steve Wozniak’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The cream soda computer also brought Wozniacki's future co-founder, Steve Jobs.
Hey,
There's someone you should meet, Bill Fernandez told him one day.
His name is Steve.
He likes pranks like you do, and he's into electronics.
The two Steves met on the sidewalk in front of Bill's house.
They sat there for hours sharing stories about pranks they pulled and circuits they'd built.
Jobs was four years younger and still in high school, but he understood immediately what Wozniak had accomplished.
It was really hard for me to explain to people the kind of design stuff I worked on, Wozniak wrote, but Jobs got it right away.
By 1971, their friendship took a new turn.
Wozniak discovered an article about phone freaks, people who'd figured out how to make free phone calls by playing specific tones into the payphone.
So Wozniak and Jobs decided to test to see if the article was true.
They got in a car and headed for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, which had at the time one of the greatest technical libraries in the world.
They searched for phone manuals to find the right tones.
While the article mentioned some, it didn't mention them all.
Listen to what he writes here.
This is awesome.
I was flipping around and suddenly stopped on a page.
There it was, a complete frequency list.
Sure enough, just as the article said, a 1 was composed of 700 Hz and 900 Hz tones together.
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