>
>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.
>
>
That's correct, Woz never worked for Atari - though he would hang out in
coin-op a lot at night with Jobs. I wrote an article about the
Apple/Atari connection 3 years ago that covers this topic as well as Jobs'
overall "career" there:
http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/atariapple/
Marty
Received on Thu Apr 22 2004 - 17:19:05 BST