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Woz to Speak at MacWorld SF

Posted by pudge on from the your-dreams-were-your-ticket-out dept.

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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  1. WOZ support by frooyo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

    1. Re:WOZ support by psyconaut · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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

  2. Didn't Woz have this other company by neocon · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

    1. Re:Didn't Woz have this other company by JabberWokky · · Score: 5, Interesting
      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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  3. No offense but... by MacAndrew · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...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.

  4. "co-founder of the Wheels of Zeus start-up"? by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  5. Funny email address by Microsift · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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