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Celebrating 26 Years of the Apple ][

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the up-and-down-arrows-are-unnecessary dept.

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."

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  1. Woz was a drop out? by ProfessionalCookie · · Score: 5, Funny
    Wozniak, who had dropped out of the University of California at Berkeley to get a job

    Sweet!! Looks like I'm on my way to fame and fortune!!
  2. Re:From the article by lyonsden · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wozniak...was five years older than Jobs

    Has this changed????

  3. Mad Tetris skillz. by asb · · Score: 5, Funny

    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/
  4. The Woz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!