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That's why Woz's boards were so crazy, he found ways to make use of every last gate and such on each chip he put in.



Fascinating thing I saw recently in social media, though I don't have a URL: Woz woke up one night in 2014 with the thought of a way to knock a chip off the Apple II's design. I haven't looked at the details but of course this was very endearing to me, the pure love for that design that Woz has always felt.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.apple2/iiLg...


Thanks for that, great read. . .


Yeah Woz was a beast like that, but I wonder how effective he would have been working with more people. Would he have been seen as a great engineer or just an early version of someone who wrote spaghetti code in hardware?


Well i think Atari had to redo his implementation of the Breakout game because they could not make heads or tails of it. But then they likely thought it was Jobs that made it, so...




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