Re: Apple II featured in Joy of Tech comic

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Sean Fahey wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >from http://mitglied.lycos.de/deomaki/html/glossary/tz.htm
> >
> >"Together with Steven Jobs, Steve Wozniak designs the game 'Breakout' for
> >Atari. Wozniak gets $350 from Jobs, who himself gets $5000 from Nolan
> >Bushnell. Steve Wozniak never is credited for designing the game together
> >with Jobs! Years later they are founding 'Apple Computers'. Rumours say,
> >that their first Apple prototype mostly consisted of Atari parts."
>
> The last "rumor" is incorrect.
>
> Woz worked for HP at HP Labs in Palo Alto.  Most of the parts
> for the Apple I (and Apple II!) are standard parts from HP labstock.

I agree that HP is the most likely source of the initial parts - given Woz
had access, and HP's liberal lab policy at the time, he may have borrowed an
item here or there. I quoted the paragraph for the sake of the "designing
something for Atari" reference.