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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.

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I froze.

I grabbed Steve and nearly screamed in excitement that I'd found it.

We both stared at the list, rushing with adrenaline.

We kept saying things like, oh shit, and wow, this thing is for real.

I was practically shaking with goosebumps and everything.

It was such a eureka moment.

We couldn't stop talking all the way home.

We were so excited.

They bought the parts and went to Jobs' house, but they couldn't get it to work.

Wozniak writes, we played the tones from our tape recording, but we weren't able to get the call to go through.

Man, it was so frustrating.

No matter how hard we tried to get the frequencies right, they wavered.

I just couldn't make them accurate.

I kept trying, but I just couldn't perfect this thing.

I realized I didn't have a good enough tone generator to prove the article true or false, one way or the other.

But I was not about to give up.

Woz ends up creating a digital blue box using crystals, which are far more reliable.

He didn't get it to work right away.

That's not what happens in engineering, but he plugged away at it for months and eventually got it to work.

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