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Macworld Interviews Woz
inkswamp writes "Interviews with Steve Wozniak are always a fun read (mainly because he is one of the few legends in the computing industry with a real personality, IMO) and this online-only Q&A on Macworld is no different. It's pretty exhaustive and seems to cover a lot of topics, including more of the by-now overly examined beginnings of Apple, and Woz's current projects."
That's why I love to read these interviews.
Me too--I found this to be one of the best interviews on /. in a while. Thanks, guys!
Also, because he was such a ground-breaking pioneer, at a time when a guy with a soldering iron & his brain could come up with something really innovative. The way that he squeezed every last bit of functionality from the circuits that he had to work with at the time is truly an example of Edison's "99% perspiration".
I agree. I found how he made the floppy disk work without knowing how floppies themselves interfaced (beyond the most general level) a particularly good example of his genius--he actually cut out over 20 chips! Imagine all the mind numbing trial-and-error.
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As a kid in Silicon Valley I remember dailing 867-1111 to hear jokes or was 741-1111. :-(
Anyone from the Bay Area should recognize those numbers.
My memory is fuzzy, but I recall reading or hearing somewhere that Steve operated a joke line.
I would also like to thank the Steve's for giving 12 or 16 Apple computers to Redwood Middle School in 1981 or 82.
My friends and I had great fun programing in BASIC during Junoir High School. I wish I had stuck with it
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