Re: question on Two Steves

[D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>]

Toma Sharple <sharpletoma@gmail.com> wrote:
> okay, here under an assumed name, passing on a question from my 'Dad
> in Chicago'.  He does not want to post himself, because he is
> embarrassed.
> 
> what Dad is asking ...
> 
> 
> "Way back, I read that the two Steves had taken a contract for someone
> like Honeywell.  Jobs told Woz that the payoff was $500, and Woz
> happily took his $250 share.
> 
> "Then, almost a decade later, I read that Woz had written a book, and
> described how he had started crying during a plane ride.  He had read
> that Jobs had lied, and the contract was really $5000, and had given
> Woz only 5%.  They had been friends, and equal partners, he had
> thought.
> 
> "In the decades since then, I thought this was a given fact, that Jobs
> had screwed his friend Woz. When fellow users would tell me about
> Jobs's latest achievement or screwup, I'd respond in a lukewarm way.
> I'd eventually explain that "Steven Jobs is not my favorite person".
> 
> "And last year, during all the public grieving, I kept quiet.  After
> all, the guy was dead.
> 
> "But, you know, I never could find out -- did the two Steve's ever
> make up? Or did Jobs apologize? Or was the whole thing a
> misunderstanding in the first place?  But no one wrote about it.
> 
> "I know that Woz and Jobs did work together from time to time over the
> decades.  And I saw in the "Pirates of Silicon Valley" movie that Woz
> didn't think that Jobs was perfect."
> 
> 
> and my Dad is having me post a query here or there.
> 
> anybody recognize this story?  can anybody shed light on this, please?
> - toma

The company was Atari. Breakout.