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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How beautiful the engineering was.
And more importantly, to show you how easy it was to add something of your own.
The Apple II launched successfully.
Soon after, RadioShack released the TRS-80 and Commodore released the PET.
The competition was real.
But the Apple II had something they didn't.
Color.
Up to 48K of RAM.
and those eight expansion slots.
The competitors had black and white displays, way less memory, and zero expansion slots.
Radio Shack and Commodore had made a calculated decision.
They wanted to be appliance companies.
They kept their technical specifications secret, hoping to monopolize the market for peripherals and software.
RadioShack stores weren't even allowed to sell third-party products.
They were building walled gardens before anyone used that term.
The Apple II was the opposite because of Wozniak.
Within months, the entire industry sprang up around the Apple II.
Dozens of companies started writing games.
Other companies built circuit boards for those expansion slots.
Memory cards, sound cards, graphics cards.
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