There are a number of excerpts being pasted all over the web as a promotion to the book, like this one:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nd9d/the-story-behind-t...

The editing on these stories is a little slack and technically incomplete. But it's an interesting piece of videogame history and probably worth a lookover.

It also goes without saying that the essential book on Atari 2600 programming is Racing the Beam:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam

And, as someone else has mentioned in this thread, Steven Kent's book is really well done:

https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-History-Video-Games-Pokemon/...

Jobs was not deeply technical.

If I remember correctly, Steve Jobs got hired at Atari because he showed them a board for some arcade game that Steve Wozniak had designed and conveniently forgot to tell them that he didn't actually design the thing.

I also think I read that Steve Jobs lied to Woz about how much Atari paid him for it so he could cheat Woz out of the money.

I'm pretty sure I read about this in a book called "The Ultimate History of Video Games". [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-History-Video-Games-Pokemon/...