Steve Wozniak
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256 bytes of RAM.
RAM chips were almost unheard of.
Most computers used magnetic core memory with messy voltages.
RAM was clean and simple.
You just plugged it in and connected it to the processor.
Steve's mother called the newspaper about her son's invention.
A reporter came to see it.
Then disaster struck.
The reporter stepped on the power cable and something blew up.
The computer started smoking.
It was broken, but Steve had proven something crucial.
The only important thing was that finally, finally, I'd been able to actually build a computer, my very first one.
The cream soda computer also brought Wozniacki's future co-founder, Steve Jobs.
Hey,
There's someone you should meet, Bill Fernandez told him one day.
His name is Steve.
He likes pranks like you do, and he's into electronics.
The two Steves met on the sidewalk in front of Bill's house.
They sat there for hours sharing stories about pranks they pulled and circuits they'd built.
Jobs was four years younger and still in high school, but he understood immediately what Wozniak had accomplished.