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Woz To Be Immortalized In Wax

Posted by timothy on from the but-wax-can-suffocate dept.

mikejuk writes: Having already made wax figures of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, the Madame Tussauds museum recently put out a call for nominations for who should be next, with the stipulation that the nominees have a connection with the Bay Area. The shortlist was then whittled down to ten, including Google co-founder Larry Page, Tesla's Elon Musk, Marc Benioff of Salesforce, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer of Yahoo. Any of them would look great as wax figures, but outcome of the public vote was a clear winner — Steve Wozniak. Once his statue is complete Woz will be on display next to Steve Jobs in San Francisco and an ideal setting for a selfie.

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  1. Fitting by garyoa1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He's the real man behind apple. After all, he's the creator. Jobs only marketed it. (But he did do that well.)

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    1. Re:Fitting by ArcadeMan · · Score: 2

      Jobs also put himself in the place of the end users and had the power to request/reject features at will.

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    2. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Hopefully they'll be far enough apart that you can easily get a picture with just Woz.

    3. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Can they fit in a a statue of Dennis Ritchie too?

    4. Re:Fitting by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Insightful

      He's the real man behind apple.

      He was in 1985. By 2005, Jobs probably had done his fair share.

      Woz was still much more respectable, though.

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    5. Re:Fitting by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yeah, that's a total crock of shit.

      Woz was a genius -- from using the 6502 to read floppies and do the decoding in software, to the whole design of the Apple such as getting 6-colors @ 280x192 with 8K that normally would take over 13K. Fuckerberg has done jack shit of inspiring people to get into hardware or software, aside from dropping out of college (Harvard.) He was extremely lucky Harvard's own social program didn't take off. Zuckerberg admits: If I wasn't the CEO of Facebook, I'd be at Microsoft

      A wax figure of Dennis Ritchie, the co-inventor of C, you know who influenced thousands of programmers those who _built_ the systems that everyone uses today would make sense. Fuck Zuckerberg and him profiting off people's data.

    6. Re:Fitting by tlhIngan · · Score: 5, Informative

      He's the real man behind apple. After all, he's the creator. Jobs only marketed it. (But he did do that well.)

      False, if Jobs and Woz didn't get together, Apple would never have happened. This is really a case where the two together were more than the sum of their parts.

      You have to remember Woz was your typical socially awkward geek who worked quietly and did things behind the scenes. When he designed the Apple 1, or rather bits and pieces of it, he was working at HP. He designed the video terminal first just as an exercise (just a bog standard video terminal that got him to play with NTSC signals), then decided to add on a CPU board to give ti "smarts" - so what you had was a standalone computer connected to a video terminal, and there you had the Apple 1. But that's it, Woz was happy to just let it be.

      However, given Jobs and Woz's close relationship, Jobs realized what Woz has done and basically realized the potential.of that invention, thus turning this oddball CPU board with video terminal contraption into the Apple 1. Woz then went to HP about commercializing it, and HP rejected it because they feared allowing users to use any old TV would result in all sorts of problems.

      Basically you needed the engineering wisdom Woz has, and couple it with the business acuity that Jobs has in order to create a successful company. Heck it was Jobs' idea to sell blue boxes - after he read the article in Esquire. Jobs basically went to Woz and asked him to design a box, and Woz made a clever design and Jobs sold it.

      Alone, each wouldn't have accomplished much - Woz would've just been Yet Another Anonymous Engineer with a lot of clever circuits at home collecting dust. Jobs would've just been a dissatisfied manager. But because both got together did they make history together.

  2. What about Carly Fiorina? by Type44Q · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about Carly Fiorina? I mean, the whole point of a wax museum is to give people the creeps, right??

    1. Re:What about Carly Fiorina? by sunderland56 · · Score: 2

      A wax sculpture of Carly Fiorina would be hugely popular - if it had a wick.

  3. Still by PNutts · · Score: 3, Funny

    Once his statue is complete Woz will be on display next to Steve Jobs in San Francisco

    Still a better love story than Twilight.