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Macworld Interviews Woz

Posted by pudge on from the here-i-go-again-on-my-own dept.

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."

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  1. Woz is such a down-to-earth type... by Green+Light · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's why I love to read these interviews.

    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".

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  2. Personality? by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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"

    hey, that's not fair! Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison have personalities too, just unpleasant ones...

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  3. Did Woz operate a joke line????? by Slaveway · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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    http://www.Slaveway.com
    1. Re:Did Woz operate a joke line????? by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I recognize the first number as being something over in Saratoga probably, but I've never heard of a joke line. (Of course considering that I wasn't even born when you were in middle school maybe that has something to do with it.) But you touched on something that can't be overlooked about Woz. He donates more computers to schools than anyone else I have ever heard of. Anyone who has gone to public school in the south bay probably has used a computer either he personally or Apple donated, especially anyone from the Los Gatos school district.

    2. Re:Did Woz operate a joke line????? by Captain+Nitpick · · Score: 4, Informative
      Yes
      Q From e-mail: I just had to laugh at the part in the movie where someone called Dial-A-Joke. I remember calling that number to hear the joke of the day. Was it really you who did this?

      WOZ:Yes. It was in the days before you could buy a phone or answering machine. I had to rent the same one as theaters rented, a very costly one. I was "The Crazy Pollok". This was the first Dial-A-Joke in the San Francisco Bay Area, back in 1973 or so. I used a heavy Russian accent and used the name "Stanley Zebrezuskinitski" when I took live calls. I met my first wife this way, she was a caller.

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      But then again, I could be wrong.
    3. Re:Did Woz operate a joke line????? by zephc · · Score: 2

      yay, go LGHS! Well, I didn't like the school much - too many spoiled kids - but I still had fun.

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      "I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
  4. Steve Jobs by weave · · Score: 2

    So, did Steve Jobs do any "real" work, or was he mainly the visionairy/leader type? What code or hardware piece did he hack out, any?