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Celebrating 26 Years of the Apple ][
jgoeres writes "June 5th is the 26th Anniversary of my first favorite fruit-flavored computer. In honor of this, the Baltimore Sun is running Part One of a two-part interview with Steve Wozniak. When The Woz speaks, I listen. Perhaps it's blind hero-worship, but he seem to embody everything good & stable that his partner lacks. Don't forget to give the man props for his mad Tetris sk1llz, too."
Sweet!! Looks like I'm on my way to fame and fortune!!
It was 1983, we'd just moved to Hawaii, and my father had bought $2,000 worth of off-white plastic called the Apple //c.
"Dad," I said, as I walked into the living room, "what's that?"
"It's called Captain Goodnight," he said without turning away from the 12" color monitor. "It's like Pitfall on the Atari, but funnier. You want to play when I'm done?"
The last 20 years have been a blur -- Star Control II, Wolf3D, X-Wing, Quake II, Uplink, and lately UT2K3. All because Woz and Jobs decided to slap together an affordable home computing system. Damn them both for all the time I've wasted. :-)
Disclaimer: I know, if I'd stuck with Apple exclusively these past 20 years, I wouldn't have to worry about a gaming addiction at all! Except maybe to that slide-puzzle-world-map-thingie...
They that would sacrifice their
Wozniak...was five years older than Jobs
Has this changed????
My dad used to play a lot of Microsoft's Tetris. So I had to play too just to keep my initials on the top spot. I once had a really good game going. I was in the zone. I was playing comfortably on the fastest level. I had way over 32k points.
And then the score rolled to -32k. I've never hated Microsoft as much as I did that day (and I hate them a lot). I was dumbfound. They can't code AND they can't play Tetris. And they call themselves professionals... I eventually took it as a quest to get the top score as close to 32767 as possible. IIRC I got it within 28 points. My dad never beat that score.
This doesn't have anything to do with Wozniak or Apple. But hey, they mentioned Tetris.
Antti S. Brax - Old school - http://www.iki.fi/asb/
I'm sure they were thinking of it being a sum of tens (30) minus a power of 2 (4) aka 26. That's far more geeky.
Matt Fahrenbacher
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
of course he wasn't buttoned down. jobs wears turtlenecks.
in 1977 my father took out a load so that he could by me an Apple 2+ computer
Does this mean that your dad became a gay porn star to afford the Apple ][? (j/k)
I am 22 - I was 8 = That means it was 12 years old when I used it. Go Oz public schools.
I think your school system is more screwed than you know...
Snooze and you lose your sushi.
If you EVER get a chance to hear Woz speak, GO! He has some hilarious stories.
For example, when he was in college, he designed and built a small device that would cause interference on a TV. Woz loves pranks, so he would take his little device to frat houses when the guys were watching the tube. He would sit in back & make the interference fade in & out. Meanwhile, some poor guy would try to adjust the antennae while everyone was yelling at him to move it here or there. In the end, Woz would finally stop the interference when the guy was in some bizarre contorted position.
He told one story after another. It was great!
Woz also has a good reason to get a Segway.
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eeww, I'll have a crab juice.
Yes, use Lunix! It's available for the C64 and C128, and it is being ported to the Apple II!
At which point you switched parents right?
Random is the New Order.
Now THERE is a matchup we'd all like to see on Celebrity boxing!
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