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Comment by wnevets

2 days ago

Did Jobs get Woz to write it for him?

Jobs was an engineer too. :)

  • Jobs was actually a technician at Atari, assembling circuit boards during the night shift. Jobs was later paid by Atari to make Breakout, but basically subcontracted it to Wozniak for 50% of the contract. Jobs ended up paying Wozniak less than 1/10 of how much Atari paid him.

    • Woz half-heartedly disputes that. He doesn't think that Jobs would have screwed him that badly, and in his kindness he also says that if Jobs did screw him then he doesn't care because he values their lifetime of friendship over one bum business deal.

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  • Calling him an engineer would be a stretch. As others aid, he was a hardware technician on an assembly line.

    That said, that experience, and this article, that Jobs had an understanding of computers and electronics when founding Apple beyond the "Woz = engineer, Jobs = sales guy" oversimplification. It's just that compared to Woz—one of the century's greatest engineering minds—anyone would look third-rate.