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Published · transcript-backedNolan Bushnell: evaluation
15 Oct 2019 Acquired Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
“I think actually Woz doesn't get enough credit for the success of Apple because he could design discrete logic chips.”
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- Speaker
- Nolan Bushnell
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 15 Oct 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
Transcript context
…You got an advisor. Woz is and was a true savant. I think actually Woz doesn't get enough credit for the success of Apple because he could design discrete logic chips. He did the Apple II as a design construct. It was brilliant. It was the most efficient articulation that you could probably have. Before that, there was this company called IMSAI who did a single chip micro thing, twice as many parts as the Apple II. When it came time to connect a disk drive up to the Apple II, it was about the same time that the Atari 800 was on the market and both of us saw that floppy disks were a cool thing, much better than a cassette tape. Woz did an all nighter two nights in a row, developed the drivers and the hardware to interface this floppy disk drive to the Apple II. It took Atari seven months and we had some smart people. Wow.…
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