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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They worked in Bill's garage, taking breaks to ride their bikes for cream soda.
That's how it got its name, the Cream Soda Computer.
It was revolutionary in its minimalism.
No screen or keyboard.
Those didn't exist yet.
Just a tiny circuit board with flashing lights.
You'd punch a program into a card, slide it in, and read the answer from the blinking lights.
But it had something special.
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.
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