OK, so we can expect a little hype and self-aggrandisement from Steve Jobs!
Your earlier link on Woz' website actually gives a quote from the Heinz Award people, not from Steve W.
However, I found that Steve W does say this in iWoz at the close of chapter 2:
"When I look back, that Adder/Subtractor was such a key project in my getting to be the engineer who ended up building the first personal computer."
Some dates:
LINC, using DEC System Module Blocks and cabinets, 1962
Olivetti Programma 101 Release date 1965 (transistors, wire delay lines)
HP 9100A 1968 (transistors, magnetic core memory)
Datapoint 2200 programmable terminal, 1970
Kenbak-1 1971 (TTL)
MCS-4 1971 (4004)
HP 9830A desktop BASIC machine, 1972 (TTL)
Micral N in early 1973 (8008)
MCM/70 personal, luggable, APL machine, announced September 25, 1973
Mark-8 kit published July 1974 (8008)
IBM 5100 Release date September 1975 (PALM, made of many bipolar gate arrays)
Jolt November 1975 (6502)
TIM also 1975 (6502)
Martin Research Mike-2 also 1975 (8008)
Apple 1 Release date April 11, 1976 (6502)
advertisement for the KIM-1 microcomputer, May 1976 (6502)
(Edit: see also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o ... _computers)
So, maybe we see a little self-aggrandisement from Woz there, or maybe he's unaware of the Jolt, or maybe for some reason he discounts it. Maybe he's thinking of having been the first to think of the idea, that in his view the Jolt was conceived after the Apple 1. At minimum, he makes a controversial claim!
Edit: the Apple 1 did had video out and came with a loadable Basic. The KIM-1 has a hex keypad and hex display, so more self contained but arguably less capable as delivered. I'd have to say they are both personal computers, but it does depend on what you mean by a computer. For programming in Basic, the Apple 1 is the more appropriate purchase.
Edit: various updates to the list above, including linkification.
Edit: see also a couple of good explorations of the timeline of the first personal computer, for various definitions of what that might mean, from elsewhere in this thread:
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Reverse-timeline quiz -
Who built the first minicomputers?Edit: slightly related, a good article by Ken Shirriff on
"The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors"