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Steve Wozniak "Steve Jobs Played No Role In My Designs For the Apple I & II"

Posted by samzenpus on from the credit-where-credit-is-due dept.

mikejuk writes: In a recent interview with very lucky 14-year old Sarina Khemchandani for her website, ReachAStudent, Steve Wozniak was more than precise about the role of Steve Jobs. "Steve Jobs played no role at all in any of my designs of the Apple I and Apple II computer and printer interfaces and serial interfaces and floppy disks and stuff that I made to enhance the computers. He did not know technology. He'd never designed anything as a hardware engineer, and he didn't know software. He wanted to be important, and the important people are always the business people. So that's what he wanted to do. The Apple II computer, by the way, was the only successful product Apple had for its first 10 years, and it was all done, for my own reasons for myself, before Steve Jobs even knew it existed." He also says a lot of interesting things in the three ten minute videos about life, electronics and education.

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  1. oops by greenfruitsalad · · Score: 5, Funny

    i hear hissing sounds from the apple camp.

    1. Re:oops by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's a chapple.

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    2. Re:oops by FranTaylor · · Score: 3, Funny

      The prevailing wisdom was that the *case* was Jobs' idea.

      apparently before steve jobs, computers did not have cases

  2. Been saying this for YEARS now... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mr. Wozniak, like most real doers got wrongfully overshadowed by a BIG TALKING BLOWHARD BULLSHITTER named Steve Jobs.

    * I do NOT like "speaking ill of the dead" but it's only FACT... my fellow polish descended U.S. Citizen got screwed for a big mouth bullshit artist - a fucking LEECH who hung onto Mr. Wozniak's coattails since he lacked what it REALLY took (technical know-how) since ANY damn fool can do P.R. work!

    APK

    P.S.=> It's always that way - & it ALWAYS makes me laugh when I see things like "The 'great inventor' Steve Jobs" who invented ZERO getting headlines like that... apk

  3. Re:emperor sans clothing by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    but with fruit

    I don't think it's fair to call Steve Jobs a fruit. His sexual preference should not be an issue.

    Now, if you're referring to Apple customers... ..you still get points off for the homophobic slur, but gain points for accuracy.

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