[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.

[Talisker]

You have a higher estimation of Jobs than I do. Woz did amazing things that literally had never been done before. And he did most of it in his head, visualizing it in a dark living room while he laid on the floor. At one point Apple integrated a number of his hardware controller schemes into one chip, which they then called the Integrated Woz Machine, or IWM. You can see this chip on the motherboards of the early Macs.

There is one thing Jobs excelled at, though - taking credit for everything.