Re: Apple II featured in Joy of Tech comic

[exegete@nunya.biz]

Sean Fahey wrote:
> <exegete@nunya.biz> wrote in message news:416b4952$1_4@127.0.0.1...
>
>
> > There are some errors on that page, Woz worked for HP, not Atari, and
> > though he made blue boxes, he didn't invent them!
>
>
> <sigh>
>
> Woz Interview
>
> http://apple2history.org/museum/articles/byte8412/byte8412.html
>
> "I saw a Pong game in a bowling alley. So I went and designed my own. I
> designed the Breakout video game for Atari. I was just constantly involved
> in electronics as a hobby. At Hewlett-Packard we were pretty much just
> designing integrated circuits."
>
> http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/hackers/steve-wozniak/
>
> and,
>
> 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."

Sigh all you want, Woz was not employed by Atari, which is what the page 
claims. And the above citations demonstrate that. So thanks for backing 
me up.

BTW - the last reference has REAL problems, unless it means that the off 
the shelf chips in the Apple I came from Atari bins.

Roy
>



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