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    21 hours ago

    Yep, the guy who figured out how to use NTSC to show colors in 4 days of coding because he wanted to play breakout with colors, with a $1 chip.

    I’m pretty sure his plane crash robbed us from great things.

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        So he had an accident while flying a cesna that he shouldn’t be flying, and suffered a head injury.

        Infinite Loop, the book about Apple stuff, said that “Coming out of the semi-coma had been like flipping a reset switch in Woz’s brain. It was as if in his thirty-year old body he had regained the mind he’d had at eighteen before all the computer madness had begun. And when that happened, Woz found he had little interest in engineering or design. Rather, in an odd sort of way, he wanted to start over fresh.”