The details always matter in these kinds of statements, and I guess there is often exaggeration in a lot of claims to have designed things. Someone that made a

The details always matter in these kinds of statements, and I guess there is often exaggeration in a lot of claims to have designed things. Someone that made a one sentence comment on a design then claims to be the one that actually made it work. It’s clear that Woz was a uniquely talented hardware designer, but he also wasn’t living in isolation (although imagine what it would have been like if he had the internet). In Chuck Peddles oral history at the Computer Museum he has this to say about Apple: Peddle: Apple II. OK, so Apple I. Peter lived in the Bay Area, and he was my salesman for the Bay Area. So he was selling Atari and all that sort of stuff. And we went to two or three other of his customers and helped them with the ICE. And he called up and said, hey, we got these two young guys working on this computer in their garage, and they can't make it work. So Peter and I took the ICE down, and we made it work. Peddle designed the 6502 and a lot of 6502 systems, he would have been a great person to have around to get your design going. And an ICE (In Circuit Emulator) would have helped too.