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Woz Still Misses Homebrew Computer Club and Apple

Posted by Zonk on from the enjoy-a-good-thing-while-you-have-it dept.

UtahSaint writes "The Electronic Design site has nabbed a short interview with the Woz, where he waxes poetically about his time growing up as an Engineer and founding Apple. Even to this day, he says, he still misses the Homebrew Computer Club and his days running around Apple leading the technical teams. 'I miss the technical camaraderie ... The whole feeling of being on a revolution, on the edge. I miss the intuitive philosophies.'"

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  1. What Woz... by nebaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Watch Woz, wanting what Woz was, wax wistfully.

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    1. Re:What Woz... by geekoid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Whoa.

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  2. Re:One hit wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shutup, Steve.

  3. Re:Nostalgia isn't what it used to be... by 2ms · · Score: 3, Funny

    The idea that Apple hardware is more expensive than PC hardware is quite outdated, to be frank. Price a few out versus Dell et al. You'll see. I just did a few months ago. Now I own my first Mac ever. This is the first computer I have ever owned that I basically love every single thing about. And that's leaving out the fact that Apple hardware generally comes with damn near all the software people regularly buy separately. Oh and then there's the lightyears better customer service and reliability ratings (see Consumer Reports -- there's no comparison).

  4. Re:One hit wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Shut up, Bill

    There, fixed that for you.

  5. Re:One in a Hundred Thousand? by msouth · · Score: 2, Funny

    or maybe you just figure that that's one of the 68.3% of statistics that are made up on the spot.

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  6. Wozniak Is Sad Because Google Rejected Him by meehawl · · Score: 3, Funny

    Despite Wozniak completing the standard 796 rounds of interviews and 14,327 pop quizzes and tedious logic puzzles filched from the back pages of Scientific American, a Google spokeswoman announced that the Internet advertising company had finally rejected him for being "Just this really, really, really ridiculously old geezer, you know?". Taking some time to look up from her playdoh, the spokeswoman added, "And he didn't go to Standford!"

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  7. Poor... by dbc23 · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's like a big...really big lost puppy who just wants love (and maybe steve jobs to stop breathing).

  8. The old saying.. by Nazlfrag · · Score: 2, Funny

    They don't make nostalgia like they used to.

  9. Re:Nostalgia isn't what it used to be... by Dun+Malg · · Score: 2, Funny

    What premium are you paying when their workstation is better spec'd and lower priced than Dells? Are you stupid, or just being an ass? Your choice for comparison is idiotic. No self respecting tech junkie who wants to install his own OS buys pre-built hardware from Dell.
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  10. Re:Wrong. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Does it run the Mac OS?
    No, thank god.