18 Sep
1998
18 Sep
'98
4:42 p.m.
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:36:06 -0700 (PDT)
Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com> wrote:
Woz designed the Apple 1 with the goal of using as few
chips as possible
because for him it was a mental exercise. He mentions this time and again
in numerous interviews. Having it inexpensive to replicate was a
by-product.
That isn't true. If you re-read those interviews. You'll read how he
spent most of his time going through catalogues finding the cheapest
chips first, then deciding what kind of machine he could best make from
those chips.
One of the goals of the Apple I was to create a low cost machine.
Basically I just wanted to give an apple example that not all engineers,
all of the time, want to built the biggest, and most expensive things.
That is a bad generalization.
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