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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Back in his apartment, Wozniak studied the data sheet.
The 8008 had instructions for adding and subtracting from memory.
Simple operations, but Wozniak knew exactly what they meant.
And then it hit him.
All those mini computers he'd designed on paper for years, they were just like this, except now the entire CPU is on a single chip instead of dozens of them.
The Altair everyone was excited about?
It was basically his cream soda computer from five years ago built with a microprocessor.
It was as if my whole life had been leading up to this point, Wozniak wrote.
His paper designs, his pawn game, breakout, they all converged into a single vision.
That night, the night of the first meeting, this whole vision of kind of a personal computer just popped into my head all at once, just like that.
Right then, he started sketching what would become the Apple I.
But this wouldn't be like the cream soda computer or the Altair with its primitive panel of switches and lights.
Wozniak had already built a terminal that could display text on a TV screen.
So why not combine them?
Why not put the computer right inside the terminal?
Every computer before the Apple I had a front panel of switches and lights, he noted.
Every computer since has had a keyboard and a screen.
While this seems obvious now, it wasn't in 1975.
Loading a simple program in the Altair took half an hour of flipping switches.
You had to know exactly which ones.
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