Woz to Speak at MacWorld SF

EccentricAnomaly writes "Steve Wozniak (co-founder of the Wheels of Zeus start-up) is coming back to MacWorld after a six-year absence, and will be speaking as part of a panel discussion of Mac OS X. This is Woz's first speaking engagement at MacWorld in 10 years."

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WOZ support

[frooyo]

I hope this is an indication that Woz supports OS X. He was the thrust that made Apple what it is today. I know, I know, you could agrue that what Apple is today is what NeXT Step was 10 years ago ( Steve Jobs started). But Woz was really the forces that brought Mac's to elementary schools nation wide. Maybe now we can start to bring that back

Re:WOZ support

[psyconaut]

He's publicly commented before that he likes both OS X and some of the current crop of hardware.

Personally, I'd rather wait for the speech where he shows the cellphone/PDA that he's working on that Apple will be licensing ;-)

-psy

Didn't Woz have this other company

[neocon]

Steve Wozniak (co-founder of the Wheels of Zeus start-up)

In unrelated news, Paul McCartney (former frontman for Wings) will be touring soon.

Re:Didn't Woz have this other company

[JabberWokky]

Yeah, I heard he's going to be touring with Leonard Nimoy (of "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" fame) and Bill Clinton (famous for having played saxaphone on a national TV show).

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Evan "famous for this post"

No offense but...

[MacAndrew]

...is Woz still so, um, strange? I owned (own, actually) an Apple ][+ and have been aware of him for many years, including the "US Festival" diversion. He has seemed like the member of the Beatles who never grew up. :)

But with a name like the Woz, what can you do? He also symbolized the counterculture aspect of Apple Computer the startup, as opposed to Apple Computer the multibillion-dollar Jobs corporation.

Re:No offense but...

[gwernol]

...is Woz still so, um, strange? I owned (own, actually) an Apple ][+ and have been aware of him for many years, including the "US Festival" diversion. He has seemed like the member of the Beatles who never grew up. :)

Back when I worked at Apple (late 90's) I had the pleasure of meeting Woz a couple of times. I would not describe him as strange - he's a smart, funny guy who knows more about computer hardware than 99% of people on Slashdot (myself included). The stories he tells about the early days, phone phreaking, building the first Apple machines: great to hear them from "the horses mouth".

His work post-Apple in education is admirable. Most people with his level of wealth could restire to a fancy multi-million dollar house and play golf. Woz decided to give something back to the community he grew up in and became a high school teacher - and by all accounts a brilliant one. Now that's a mature and responsible person who has more than "grown up".

But with a name like the Woz, what can you do? He also symbolized the counterculture aspect of Apple Computer the startup, as opposed to Apple Computer the multibillion-dollar Jobs corporation.

Hah, Jobs was and to some extent still is every bit the embodiment of the counter-culture. In many ways Jobs is much more the arrested adolescent than Woz is. Go read this book which tells the tales of the early days of Apple Computer. You'll find a very different Mr. Jobs there. Those who knew him in those days tell me its a pretty accurate account.

[Wish2] Ask Woz

[korpiq]

I found his new company far more interesting than the fact he's going to drop a few live lines somewhere.

1. "Being clear-headed about money, how do you view open approach to technology? Do you think that making Macintosh parts open (as in clonable hw and free sw) would have leveraged information tools better than what happened back in 80's and what's still happening today? If, how? Now that you are free to try again, are you considering taking care that APIs and HW specs are available for others to build on, reverse engineer and share?"

2. "I found to my surprise that you took part in forming EFF. What was your role there then and how do you view its current behavior? In which issues/attitudes would you separate your personal views from EFF's? Are you still active there?"

Those are my 0.2 wishes.

(Oh, am I happy that my gf's out? I'll have the whole evening for our 'puters!-)

Re:[Wish2] Ask Woz

[Mononoke]

1. "Being clear-headed about money, how do you view open approach to technology? Do you think that making Macintosh parts open (as in clonable hw and free sw) would have leveraged information tools better than what happened back in 80's and what's still happening today? If, how? Now that you are free to try again, are you considering taking care that APIs and HW specs are available for others to build on, reverse engineer and share?"

My guess would be that it would have gone just as well for Apple as it did for IBM's PC division.

"co-founder of the Wheels of Zeus start-up"?

[bill_mcgonigle]

While true, I think more people would recognize him as "co-founder of Apple", or even "the guy who invented Personal Computers". The point of such parenthetical phrases is to remind the reader who this is you're talking about. Wheels of Zeus, while a swimming concept, hasn't really proven its worth yet, even if it is abbreviated 'WoZ'.

Perhaps submitter works at Microsoft.

Funny email address

[Microsift]

I went to the Wheels of Zeus inquiries page and clicked on the Job Inquiries link the email address was "jobs@woz.com".

I checked the ground temperature and looked for airborne swine, and then figured it all out.