Steve Wozniak: The Apple Co-Founder Who Chose Fun Over Fortune

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In February 1981, Steve Wozniak crashed a small plane shortly after takeoff from a California airport and woke with anterograde amnesia. For five weeks his brain could not form new memories, and he did not know his own name. He recovered in part by playing games on the Apple II, the computer he had designed. When his memory returned, he looked at his wealth and the corporate grind at Apple and stepped away, re-enrolling at UC Berkeley under the alias Rocky Raccoon Clark to finish his engineering degree.

This episode follows Wozniak from a childhood shaped by a Lockheed engineer father and Tom Swift Jr. books to the Homebrew Computer Club, where he built the Apple I to impress fellow hobbyists. It examines his partnership with Steve Jobs, one man supplying technical miracles and the other the means to sell them, and his lifelong fight for open machines that owners can modify and repair, from eight expansion slots on the Apple II to the right to repair movement.

As a phone phreak known as Berkeley Blue, Wozniak built blue boxes that used a 2600 hertz tone to command the phone network, and Jobs turned them into a product.
For Atari's Breakout he cut 50 chips from the design. Jobs collected a 5,000 dollar bonus, told him it was 700, and handed over 350.
He offered the Apple I design to Hewlett-Packard five times and was turned down each time. Its retail price of 666.66 dollars came from his fondness for repeating digits.
He produced color on the Apple II with a one dollar chip by timing processor pulses to match the television's color burst signal.
When Jobs denied stock options to early employees, Wozniak gave them 10 million dollars of his own shares, and he later taught computing to fifth through ninth graders.

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