Wozniak Quotes

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Walter Isaacson
“Then he began writing the software that would get the microprocessor to display images on the screen. Because he could not afford to pay for computer time, he wrote the code by hand. After a couple of months he was ready to test it. "I typed a few keys on the keyboard and I was shocked! The letters were displayed on the screen." It was Sunday, June 29, 1975, a milestone for the personal computer. "It was the first time in history," Wozniak later said, "anyone had typed a character on a keyboard and seen it show up on their own computer's screen right in front of them.”
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

Steven Levy
“There was a program on the computer ... where two people could “chat” to each other while on the computer, sharing information.

Woz ... hacked into the depths of the system and discovered a way to break in on other people’s electronic conversations.

So when Gordon French, for instance, was flaming about his new trick with the 8008 Chicken Hawk, his home terminal would inexplicably begin printing out these semiobscene Polish jokes, and he never did figure out that somewhere miles away Steve Wozniak was doubled up in laughter.”
Steven Levy, Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Chapters 1 and 2