Steve Wozniak invented Breakout

 

From: Chuck Darling

July 20, 2024

Re: Visionary Inventor

 

Steve is well known for

inventing the Apple II computer.

 

But...

 

Did you know he invented

Dial A Joke ?

 

Steve invented Breakout

at the suggestion of his

friend, Steve Jobs, who

worked for Atari.

 

The game was built in

Hardware, without Microprocessors.

 

Steve had built his own

version of the Atari Pong

Quarter Eating video game,

and he showed it to Atari.

 

They wanted to hire him immediately, but he refused,

intending to retire at Hewlett

Packard, where he designed

Calculators.

 

Steve Jobs urged him

to build Breakout,

but there was a 4 day

deadline.

 

He didn't sleep for 4 days.

 

Steve  also invented the

method of getting a microprocessor to produce

Color on a TV.

 

Steve also invented a

simplified floppy disk

control circuit, allowing

the Apple II to go from

Cassette Storage to Floppy Disk.

 

Steve essentially invented

the Personal Computer

Industry.

 

Steve got his video-circuit

know how, from working

for a company called

Cartrivision, which made

the first VCR's.

 

He said the motor on

the vcr was unusual...

 

"Another project I did was for a company that came out with the first consumer VCRs, and yes, it was before the Betamax. It was called Cartrivision, and the VCR had this amazing motor in it

with its own circuit board that

spun as it ran the motor. In other

words, the spinning circuit board was actually the electronics that ran the motor! 

It was strange.

Huh.

 

A spinning circuit board

that POWERED THE MOTOR...!

 

Great Scott !!!

 

 

 

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