Apple’s Co-Founder Left to Make THIS??

TL;DR

Steve Wozniak left Apple in 1985 to build the world's first programmable universal remote, the Core Master, which was simply too advanced for its time.

Key Points

• 1.The 1987 Core Master ($200, ~$572 today) had 36KB of memory, 16 programmable pages, macro sequences, built-in timers, and could even reprogram itself — all years before DVDs existed.
• 2.Its fatal flaw: no non-volatile memory meant dead batteries wiped everything, including the firmware, and its hex-labeled buttons and 100-page manual made it accessible only to low-level programmers.
• 3.The device quietly lived on as the PIC 100 and PIC 200, adapted by Celadon for use on X-ray machines and still spotted in hospitals as late as the 2000s.