Time article about Jobs

From: Al Kossow <aek_at_spies.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 12:27:27 2004

I wasn't sure when they met, but I did seem to recall that Jobs did get
Woz the Atari job. Wasn't that where Jobs was working, and they wanted to
design a handheld game, and Jobs got Woz to do it, and he did it so well,
Atari couldn't figure out exactly how he did it.

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Woz never worked for Atari.
He built the first prototype for the game that became Breakout. At the
time, Bushnell would pay a bonus based on how few chips you could use
for building a game. Woz used HP custom ICs, which were unavalable to
the outside world to do it, so it had to be redesigned to take them 
out to get the game into production. 
Jobs was the Atari tech on the project (and was the one that got the
bonus, which he never told Woz about..)
This info was told to me by the VP of Engineering of Atari at the
time this all happened.

Received on Thu Apr 22 2004 - 12:27:27 BST