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jedberglast Wednesday at 5:35 AM3 repliesview on HN

Jobs was an engineer too. :)


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blackguardxlast Wednesday at 6:01 AM

Jobs was actually a technician at Atari, assembling circuit boards during the night shift. Jobs was later paid by Atari to make Breakout, but basically subcontracted it to Wozniak for 50% of the contract. Jobs ended up paying Wozniak less than 1/10 of how much Atari paid him.

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wnevetslast Wednesday at 6:01 AM

An "engineer" that out sourced his work to Wozniak while at Atari

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TMWNNlast Wednesday at 7:25 AM

Calling him an engineer would be a stretch. As others aid, he was a hardware technician on an assembly line.

That said, that experience, and this article, that Jobs had an understanding of computers and electronics when founding Apple beyond the "Woz = engineer, Jobs = sales guy" oversimplification. It's just that compared to Woz—one of the century's greatest engineering minds—anyone would look third-rate.