This was amazing to read. Thanks for correcting me and string the record the straight for me. Jobs was not telling the truth.

I'm glad you liked the article. If you want something more "official", here's a link to the IEEE Spectrum: https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-half-century-ago-better-transist...

Love your website, Ken. I discovered it some time back from HN (long before I registered an account here). You are an inspiration.

It's not true. Woz's genius switching power supply was what made the Apple ][ special long before the 2e was even dreamed of.

Apparently not, see link provided in the other reply:

http://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-powe...

Jobs lied and, additionally, Woz did not design that power supply as you suggest.

In the book "I, Woz", Steve Wozniak explains that Jobs hired a random hacker Rod Holt to design switching mode power supply unit for their Apple II computer. Jobs paid him $200 a day which was a lot of money by that time. Rod did the best work he could.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Holt