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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But WoW is one of fewer chips because more chips was just unnecessary complexity.
It wasn't simple.
It wasn't elegant.
Seeing Wozniak had built Pong with just 28 chips, one of the Atari founders desperately wanted him to do it for a single player game of Pong.
Jobs approached him and Wozniak agreed immediately.
Then Jobs did what Steve Jobs does and dropped the bomb.
It has to be done in four days.
four days for what would take a normal team months.
The game was called Breakout.
They didn't sleep for four days.
Wozniak would draw the design on paper.
Jobs would wire the chips together then bring it back for testing.
Somehow they finished it.
Woz writes, the whole thing used 45 chips and Steve paid me half the 700 bucks he said they paid him.
They were paying us based on how few chips I could do it in.
Later, I found out he got paid a bit more for it, like a few thousand dollars than he said at the time.
But we were just kids, you know?
He got paid one amount and told me he got paid another.
He wasn't honest with me and I was hurt, but I didn't make a big deal about it or anything.
To Woz, the most important thing in life was happiness.
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