This article is from the Apple II Csa2 FAQ, by Jeff Hurlburt with numerous contributions by others.
Following is a Steve Wozniak interview which appeared in the Summer 1997 issue
of II Alive.
By: Charles T. "Dr. Tom" Turley
Related FAQs Resources: R010APPLE1.GIF (GIF pic of Apple I)
Looking Back: Woz Tells: "How I Did It!"
Charles T. Turley, interviewer
The recent flurry of speculations surrounding Apple Inc.'s future seems to
have stirred up questions concerning birth of the Apple II. Some writers have
reported that coding of the first II ROMs was a fairly simple affair since, "of
course", Steve Wozniak had access to an assembler and terminal. Similar
"obvious" and "easy" comments have surfaced about the decisions to use dynamic
RAM and include a BASIC interpreter. I decided to ask Woz for all the facts.
 
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