[Talisker]

It's neat to think of plugging the MOnSter 6502's in-circuit emulator (ICE) cable directly into a socket inside an Apple ][, but that wouldn't actually work. The Apple ][ design relies on a number of clever tricks that derive timing for video generation and peripheral control from the main clock signal — all of which will fail if you need to run at a slower speed.

In other words, Woz really was a wiz.

[bigbob]

No doubt. But the motivation was economic, more than technical. The success of Apple stemmed from the visionary (Jobs) defining requirements that would have takes lots of expensive components to implement (such as a full screen video display) and then Woz (with help from Jobs and others) would turn handstands trying to find ways to implement those features while using as few components (thus cost) as possible. Don Lancaster’s “TV Typewriter 6” did the same thing for the KIM-1, by sharing main memory for video, but it was only a hobbyist toy while the Apple II became pivotal in in “personalizing” the computer.