You quote selectively from Jobs. Here's the part that's actually his claim:
>> "That switching power supply was as revolutionary as the Apple II logic board was," Jobs later said. "Rod doesn't get a lot of credit for this in the history books but he should. Every computer now uses switching power supplies, and they all rip off Rod Holt's design."
Jobs wasn't just claiming Holt's power supplies were built like those in oscilloscopes, but that it was practically the ancestor of all modern PC PSUs.
The article conclusively dismantles that claim.
P.S. The oscilloscope reference seems to be a Red Herring. From the article:
>> One puzzling aspect of power supply discussion in the book Steve Jobs[1] is the statement that the Apple II's power supply is "like those used in oscilloscopes", since oscilloscopes are just one small use for switching power supplies. This statement apparently arose because Holt had previously designed a switching power supply for oscilloscopes,[82] but there's no other connection between Apple's power supply and oscilloscope power supplies.
>> "That switching power supply was as revolutionary as the Apple II logic board was," Jobs later said. "Rod doesn't get a lot of credit for this in the history books but he should. Every computer now uses switching power supplies, and they all rip off Rod Holt's design."
Jobs wasn't just claiming Holt's power supplies were built like those in oscilloscopes, but that it was practically the ancestor of all modern PC PSUs.
The article conclusively dismantles that claim.
P.S. The oscilloscope reference seems to be a Red Herring. From the article:
>> One puzzling aspect of power supply discussion in the book Steve Jobs[1] is the statement that the Apple II's power supply is "like those used in oscilloscopes", since oscilloscopes are just one small use for switching power supplies. This statement apparently arose because Holt had previously designed a switching power supply for oscilloscopes,[82] but there's no other connection between Apple's power supply and oscilloscope power supplies.