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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And he realized something crucial.
While he'd been contentedly designing calculators at HP, the field had advanced beyond what he thought was possible.
He didn't wait.
He decided to build his own version immediately.
Not just to have it, but to be the only person in the world with their own version of Pong at home.
And he'd do it his way with just 28 chips.
He completed this a year before Atari released their home version.
When he showed it to Steve Jobs, who was working at Atari at the time, the engineers were so impressed they offered Wozniak a job on the spot.
He refused.
He could never leave HP.
But Jobs wouldn't let his friend disappear into the comfortable world of calculators.
Atari's games were bloating to 200 chips each.
They needed someone who could do more with less.
Jobs wanted Wozniak to redesign their new single-player version of Pong.
A brief aside here just to answer the question why the number of chips matter so much.
Not only were they expensive, but they were necessary.
Back in the days before a CPU, the entire game had to be implemented in hardware.
There was no game program.
It was all hardwired.
So the fewer the chips, the cheaper it was to make, the easier it was to test.
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