atari's founder, nolan bushnell recalls a video game they created.ad one project that everyone turned down. it was a game called breakout. finally i said "steve, hey, do this for me." and he said, "done." wozniak wasn't on the payroll and jobs was. they worked something out in the evening. two weeks later, in a project that traditionally took months we had a prototype. in january 1976, jobs, the promoter began pestering wozniak, the designer, to build some printed circuit boards so other hobbyists could build their own computers. we invested $1,000 and we'd have to sell 50 to profit. i said, "i don't think we'll get our money back." he said, "no, maybe we won't, but we'll have a company." if you're like me, that's reason for doing something. you don't have to justify it in some productive sense. we started as just a little play dream. for start-up capital jobs sold his van and wozniak his calculator. soon they had a prototype. i took this blank pc board to hewlett-packard and showed it to my engineer friends. everyone was gloating over it. a few days