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Wozniak: Jobs hid thousands in Atari bonus money for Breakout design
“Woz writes, the whole thing used 45 chips, and Steve paid me half the 700 bucks he said they paid him. They were paying us based on how few chips I could do it in. Later I found out he got paid a bit more for it. Like a few thousand dollars than he said at the…”
Shane Parrish Nov 4, 2025 ▶ 17:25 Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
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Parrish: Wozniak built a 28-chip home Pong a year before Atari
“To be the only person in the world with their own version of Pong at home, and he'd do it his way with just 28 chips. He completed this a year before Atari released their home version.”
Shane Parrish Nov 4, 2025 ▶ 15:50 Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
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