Jobs: "Steve [Wozniak] was the first person I met that knew more about electronics than I did."
Jobs spent most of his childhood learning about electronics and squeezing as much free information as he could out of people around him about electronics. There is a precious story of how he called Bill Hewlett (from Hewlett Packard) to source diodes for his frequency counter project, and instead was offered a summer job at the company's factory where he got even more technical experience.
Jobs spent a lot of time making the circuit boards of the first Macintosh beautiful - he wanted their architecture to be clean and orderly. Who cared about that?
Homestead High Schoolでの電子回路開発の逸話も有名だし、ヒューレット・パッカードとの12歳での製品レベルの物作りの質を体験、さらに親による妥協を一切せず 自らに対してだけは嘘をつくなという道徳意識による強い教化、アタリでの基盤テストからApple Iでの基盤と妥協を許さないテストによる貢献と献身は 基本的にジョブズのバックボーンになっていると分析されている []
Isaacson asked Jobs' best friend Jony Ive what he thought. Here's his response:
I once asked him why he gets so mad about stuff. He said, "But I don't stay mad." He has this very childish ability to get really worked up about something, and it doesn't stay with him at all. But, there are other times, I think honestly, when he's very frustrated, and his way to achieve catharsis is to hurt somebody. And I think he feels he has a liberty and license to do that. The normal rules of social engagement, he feels, don't apply to him. Because of how very sensitive he is, he knows exactly how to efficiently and effectively hurt someone. And he does do that.
https://emberify.com/blog/cream-soda-the-first-computer/ The cream soda computer was before useful microprocessors so I created the processor itself out of TTL chips. This was an era where shift registers, counters, ALU’s were around in 4-bit flavors. In the end, I added chips to play with this simple 8-bit processor, just like the Altair, although I had no expansion bus that I can remember. The start
270 名前:was to create an instruction set. I used two common 4-bit ALU chips, I think. The minimal processor of this sort needed some arithmetic commands and at least one branch-on-condition. I created instructions that were either arithmetic between the one register and memory, and at least one branch or zero or branch on overflow instruction. Not much more as I recall. I was able to enter a program which took a 4-bit number in the lower 4 switches and multiply it by a 4-bit number in the higher 4 switches and display the result in 8 LED’s. But inputting code bit by bit wasn’t super useful. Still, it did work and was a good prelude to my thinking 5 years later with the Apple I and Apple ][ computers. You always move forward and the world of hobby computing was being born around devices not much more than my cream soda computer. Oh, and my computer had 256 bytes of static RAM in 8 chips I got from Intersil.
bobdenton.co.uk/2014/08/11/steve-wozniak-early-days-to-cream-soda-computer-history/ At school he routinely won science competitions, one of these for a device he built to show the atomic structure of all ninety-two atoms in the periodic table. He later explained that he had thoroughly learned all the features of a diode to make the circuitry work.
For another competition he produced a tic-tac-toe, or noughts and crosses, device completely designed around the capability of logic circuits. Earlier we saw that Bill Gates wrote a tic-tac-toe software program in 1968 at the age of thirteen. Wozniak built his hardware device when he was a year or so younger.
In the eighth grade, aged 13-14 years, he developed a rudimentary computer that he called an Adder/Subtractor. It was a complex device consisting of a hundred transistors, two hundred diodes, and two hundred resistors with relays and switches. It used switches to enter two binary numbers before selecting add or subtract, following which a series of lights presented the solution.
Altair BASIC インタプリタは、マイクロソフト社を設立したポール・アレン とビル・ゲイツ(および Monte Davidoff の手伝い)が開発した。
The Altair BASIC interpreter was developed by Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates with help from Monte Davidoff, using a self-made Intel 8080 software simulator running on a PDP-10 minicomputer.
In the same way, Jobs spent a lot of time making the circuit boards of the first Macintosh beautiful- he wanted their architecture to be clean and orderly.
一つ他の技術者と際立って違うのは、自分の意見を通すために衝突をまったく恐れないタイプだったこと
A Diet Of Air And Water
Jobs was hired as Atari employee #40, as a technician fixing up and tweaking circuit board designs. One of his first roles was finishing the technical design of Touch Me, a simple arcade memory game similar to Ralph Baer's later Simon toy. He more than likely helped out on other games that year, such as racer Gran Trak 20 and the odd experiment Puppy Pong.
But the young, abrasive Jobs didn't fit in. As the various stories go, complaints ranged from poor hygiene to an abrasive attitude to strange dietary habits.
Jobs convinced Wozniak to work on the game during his day job at Hewlett-Packard,when he was meant to be designing calculators. At night the two would collaborate on building it at Atari: Wozniak as engineer, Jobs as breadboarder and tester.
The audience at the Homebrew Computer club was not impressed when the Jobs and Wozniak presented their first printed circuit boards, but one person stayed afterwards to talk for a while. Paul Terrell had three computer stores and visions of building a national chain.
“Finally Jobs was able to convince the manager of Cramer Electronics to call Paul Terrell to confirm that he had really committed to a $25,000 order,”