Steve Wozniak
speaker
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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People were shocked.
He'd used just 30 chips.
The Altair needed hundreds of dollars of additional equipment to do anything useful, and his worked with your home TV.
True to the homebrew spirit, Wozniak gave away his complete design, Xeroxing copies to anyone who wanted it.
Hundreds of copies.
Steve Jobs watched the crowds gathering around Wozniak's table.
By Thanksgiving, he noticed something Wozniak hadn't.
The people at Homebrew are taking the schematics, but they don't have the time or ability to build it.
So Jobs proposed selling printed circuit boards.
People could buy the board, solder their own chips, and have a working computer in days instead of weeks.
Make them for $20, sell them for $40.
Wozniak hesitated.
They'd need $1,000 just to get the boards printed.
They'd have to sell at least 50 to break even.
Were there even 50 people who'd want one?
They were sitting in Steve Jobs' car when he said the words that changed everything.
Well, even if we lose our money, we'll have a company.
For once in our lives, we'll have a company.
That convinced me, Woz wrote, to be two best friends starting a company.
Wow, I knew right then that I'd do it.
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