Steve and Steve

After Jobs was assigned to work on the optimization of the circuit board of the arcade game. To minimize the number of chips Atari was willing to pay up to $ 100 for each removed chip. The count was reduced to 46 whereas so far, the games required around 100 chips. However, back then no one knew that Jobs was not the technician behind this. Instead, Steve Wozniak, who was not an employee for the company but spend many nights with Steve at Atari was the hands of the operation. What happened later was that Jobs shared with his friend half of the $700 he said they earned from the project and hide the fact that Atari gave him an additional $ 5 000. Wozniak did not learn about the additional $ 5 000 until years later.

Whether or not Wozniak was going to be mad about Jobs` finding the additional bonus of the game is irrelevant now because after the success of the Breakout game they founded their own company. The company was aiming at designing a personal home computer. An interesting fact is that even Al Alcorn from Atari helped in the creation of the Apple I and Steve Jobs offered the product to the company. The product was not accepted in Atari and Jobs, accompanied by Wozniak who was never an official employee of Atari left. On April 1, 1976, they founded the Apple Computer Company.