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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On Wozniak's design, you could do it in under a minute.
To see what was in the Altair's memory meant decoding patterns of blinking lights.
On his design, you'd see it instantly on your screen.
Still at HP, Wozniak went to the office early to study chip manuals.
The Motorola 6800 processor cost $40 with his employee discount.
Then he heard about the 6502, half the price, same functionality.
At a tech show, he bought several for $20 each.
Working alone in his HP cubicle before dawn and late into the night, fueled by TV dinners, he built his computer.
The soldering took one night.
Writing in the monitor program 256 bytes of code that would replace the front panel took several more.
All done by hand on paper because you couldn't afford computer time.
On Sunday, June 29, 1975, at 10 p.m., after hours of debugging, Wozniak typed on the keyboard.
Letters appeared instantly on the screen.
It's so hard to describe this feeling when you get something working on the first try.
It's like getting a putt from 40 feet away.
He didn't realize it then, but this was the first time in history anyone had typed on a keyboard and seen it appear on their own computer screen.
That's just over 50 years ago today.
Think how wild that is.
At homebrew meetings, Wozniak would set up this computer after the main sessions.
He was too shy to present to the whole group, but one-on-one, he was in his element.
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