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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They created products Wozniak hadn't imagined.
Computer magazines filled with Apple II product ads.
Suddenly, the Apple II name was everywhere, Wozniak wrote.
We didn't have to buy an advertisement or do anything ourselves to get the name out.
That was the power of the open architecture.
Every third-party company that made a product for the Apple II became, in effect, a marketing arm for Apple.
Every ad they bought, every review they got, every innovation they created made the Apple II more valuable.
It was a virtuous circle that started with those eight slots.
But Marcullo wasn't satisfied.
He was annoyed at how long it took to load his checkbook program from Cassette.
A cassette tape could read a thousand bits per second.
A floppy could read a hundred thousand bits per second.
A hundred times faster.
He told Wozniak they needed a floppy disk drive.
The Computer Electronics Show was coming up in January 1978.
Wozniak desperately wanted to go.
It was the industry's biggest event.
He asked Marcoule if he could go, if he finished the disk drive in time.
Markula, knowing how to motivate his star engineer, agreed.
That gave Wozniak two weeks to build a floppy drive.
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