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| | Steven Wozniak |
 | | Wozniak was the typical computer "nerd" an electronic tinkered, computer gamer as well as a math genius. | | | As a child Steve Wozniak was enthralled with mathematics and computers. | | | Wozniak and Jobs introduced the Apple II which was one of the first personal computers originally aimed at medium to large size businesses. |
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http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/WOZNIAK.HTM
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| | Steve Jobs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Steve Jobs speaking at Stanford University in 2005. | | | Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is currently the CEO of Apple Computer and is a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. | | | In 1986, Steve Jobs bought Lucasfilm's computer graphics division from George Lucas for $10 million and named the new computer animation studio Pixar. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
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| | The Heinz Awards |
| | Steve Wozniak receives the Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy and Employment for single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers. | | | Wozniak and "the other Steve," Steve Jobs, who had once been a classmate in high school, revolutionized the computer industry when they built and marketed the first computer designed for general public use. | | | The Apple II is certainly one of if not the most significant developments of the 20th Century in that it was the first time the power of a computer was made available to the individual. |
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http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients.asp?action=detail&recipientID=12
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| | Steve Wozniak's Honorary Doct... |
| | Steve Wozniak received an honorary Doctorate of Sciences today (5/15/2004) from NC State University for his accomplishments in revolutionizing personal computing. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/armanassa/packmug/PhotoAlbum21.html
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| | Inventor Steve Wozniak |
| | Steve Wozniak was inducted in 2000 for Microcomputer for Use with Video Display Personal Computer (Patent Number 4,136,359). | | | Steve Woznaik was featured June, 1996 for his invention of the Personal Computer. | | | Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak made a natural team inventing the first ready-made personal computer. |
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http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/wozniak.htm
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| | STEVE JOBS |
| | Steve Jobs innovative idea of a personel computer led him into revolutionizing the computer hardware and software industry. | | | Steve Jobs, a college dropout who experimented with drugs and Eastern religions before turning to computer design was an unlikely candidate to have become the prototype of America's computer industry entrepreneur. | | | The accomplishments Steve Jobs had on the computer industry while at Apple was introducing the personal computer. |
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http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Jobs.html
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| | Steve Wozniak's Profile |
| | Wozniak's desire to design and build a computer that was affordable and useful is extremely admirable. | | | Wozniak and Jobs were to fully assemble the computers. | | | The idea for the Apple I computer came about after Wozniak realized current computers could be improved. |
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http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/profile/wozniak.html
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| | Stephen Wozniak Biography |
| | Stephen Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and their Apple Computer Company revolutionized the computing industry, bringing personal computers into the homes of tens, then hundreds, thousands and hundreds of thousands of homes across the world. | | | I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw...." (Wolfson) Wozniak built his Apple 1 with the intention that it would be easy to use, useful for solving problems, and good for playing games. | | | But at the Homebrew Computer Club, Wozniak was a hit. |
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http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/woz_gig/woz.html
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| | Steve Wozniak's History with Apple Computer |
| | Wozniak's second computer the Apple II was introduced in 1977 and it featured a CPU, a keyboard, and a Wozniak designed 5-1/4 floppy disk drive. | | | Many know that Apple Computer is a brainchild of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. | | | After graduating high school in 1972, Jobs went off to college in Oregon only to return in 1974, short of a degree, and started to attend meetings of Wozniak's bi-weekly "Homebrew Computer Club." Jobs, an Atari employee at that time, began to collaborate with Wozniak, designing the first computer in Jobs's bedroom. |
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http://packmug.ncsu.edu/woz/history.html
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| | The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Steve Wozniak Q & A |
| | Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in 1976, was in Seattle Thursday to speak to a University of Washington class. | | | I just wanted to build the best computer possible and he sort of wanted to build a company that would be selling computers forever. | | | All the others were an affordable price for a little part of a computer that couldn't do the job. |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002929498_wozqa14.html
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| | Steve Wozniak Slams Apple Over IPods, Intel - Forbes.com |
| | From an engineering standpoint, however, Wozniak admitted that the move to use Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people) chips could be beneficial, though he said he still had lingering questions about whether or not the move was truly necessary. | | | Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak bit into the company yesterday, calling its recent pact with Intel "like consorting with the enemy" and advising it to spin off its iPod business as fast as possible. | | | And while he conceded the iPod's technical excellence, Wozniak asserted that they distracted Apple from its focus on computing. |
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/24/wozniak-jobs-apple-cx_lh_0224autofacescan05.html
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| | DaveNet : Steve Wozniak on Apple |
| | And Steve Jobs spoke out for buying the current technologies of the world and adding value by piecing them together to create complete, finished computers. | | | Steve was actually replying to my 8/24/95 column on HotWired, not one of the DaveNets distributed via email. | | | It was Jobs's garage that Apple started in, but it was Wozniak's computer. |
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http://davenet.scripting.com/1995/08/28/stevewozniakonapple
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| | Steve Wozniak slams Apple over Intel and iPods |
| | APPLE co-founder Steve Wozniak said that the company is consorting with the enemy in its chip pact with Intel and should spin off its iPod business as fast as possible. | | | Apple was, he said, a computer company which really thinks about computers. | | | Steve Wozniak slams Apple over Intel and iPods |
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29887
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| | What Steve Wozniak Learned From Failure : HBS Working Knowledge |
| | Wozniak then created the Apple II, the last personal computer to be designed entirely by a single human being. | | | His former partner, Steve Jobs, soon moved on to learn a fantastic set of lessons from his own "failure," Next Computer Inc. But Woz seemed content to sit on the sidelines. | | | He became one of the world's most famous teachers, holding classes in computer graphics for elementary school kids in his own garage. |
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http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4367&t=innovation&nl=y
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| | Apple II History Museum - Articles |
| | Steve Jobs's thinking at the time was, "People don't really want to buy a computer. | | | [Steve is referring to the Personal Computer Systems Division, responsible for the Apple II and Apple III products.] We're hamstrung by the need to be compatible; Macintosh isn't. | | | It used a PROM and a latch and cycled through various states depending on the input data coming off the floppy disk. |
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http://apple2history.org/museum/articles/byte8501/byte8501.html
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| | Personal Computer History - Invention of the Personal Computer |
| | Steve Wozniak was inducted in 2000 for his invention Microcomputer for Use with Video Display Personal Computer Patent # 4,136,359. | | | In 1976, in what is now the Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created a homemade microprocessor computer board called Apple I. Working from Jobs’ parents’ garage, the two men began to manufacture and market the Apple I to local hobbyists and electronics enthusiasts. | | | Early in 1977, Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple Computer, Inc., and in April of that year introduced the Apple II, the world’s first personal computer. |
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http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/story071.htm
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| | globeandmail.com : UPDATED: What the other Steve is saying about Apple's striking resurgence |
| | Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak — also known as “The Wizard of Woz,” or even “the other Steve” — made his fortune as the inventor of the Apple II computer more than 25 years ago. | | | Still, the switch to Intel is a necessary one from an engineering standpoint, he said, because Apple needed a way to improve performance per watt. | | | In an interview after the match, which ended in a draw, the normally media-shy Mr. |
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060223.wxapple0223/BNStory/Front/home
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| | Woz.org...Everyone is Welcome |
| | Steve Wozniak, Inventor of the Apple Computer Highland ISBN 0-945783-08-6 112 pages, with photos, glossary and index. | | | It had half the parts and ten times more things than any other low cost computer, including many revolutionary ones that would set the tone of what a personal computer should be. | | | Did you introduce or in any other way promote the Apple at any time at Civic Auditorium, and if so, what was the significance to Apple, the computer industry, (perhaps even yourself) of that event. |
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http://www.woz.org
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| | Steve Wozniak |
| | Of all the founders of the home computer revolution that took the United States by storm in the 1980s, there is one who is more unlikely than the rest: Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer. | | | Today, he lives in Los Gatos, California, teaching elementary and middle school students how to build their own computers and hopefully, inspiring them to do this kind of work strictly for the love of it. | | | He designed computers to see how well he could do it. |
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http://www.heroism.org/class/1980/wozniak.htm
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| | Steve Wozniak |
| | While working as programmers at Atari, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs create a blueprint for an easy-to-use personal computer. | | | After retiring in his mid-30s, he was known in Silicon Valley as "the third Steve," the man who bankrolled Jobs and Steve Wozniak to help found Apple (and who, among other things, persuaded Wozniak that floppy disks were worth using). | | | With their new company, General Magic, the creators of the Macintosh aim to revolutionize computing - again. |
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/steve_wozniak
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| | Forefront Fall 2005 |
| | Because Jobs once worked in an orchard, they dubbed their machine the Apple I. It made a big splash at the Homebrew Computer Club, and Jobs was able to score a bonanza $50,000 order from a Mountain View computer store called The Byte Shop. | | | SW: The main reason is that Steve and I started from nothing but had good motivations about how we could change the world positively. | | | These days, his mind is incubating another new digital technology that could, yet again, cut a swath of change in our daily lives. |
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http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/forefront/fall2005/woz.html
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| | ThankyouSteve.com: Home |
| | In an interview with globeandmail.com, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak weighs in on the switch to Intel, the phenomenal success of the iPod, and even offers a comment or two on Microsoft. | | | During the sit-down, Woz offered his comments, some less than positive, on a range of topics, including the switch to Intel, iPod and iTunes, and Microsoft. | | | We also managed to come up with an idea for a new shirt. |
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http://www.thankyousteve.com
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| | Re: Steve Wozniak's math trick (as told to my son) |
| | We were waiting for a table at San Jose's Fishmarket when Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer walked in. | | | Otherwise, the 2nd time or 2nd kid that asks at the same table, the trick will be revealed and look cheap when the numbers all match except for 4. | | | I contend Channel9 is a covert research project |
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http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=128925
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| | Steve Wozniak's famous ZALTAIR Prank |
| | And while I'm at it, anyone who enjoyed that article will find a wealth of vintage computer lore in the original book. | | | Digital Deli, The comprehensive, user-lovable menu of computer lore, culture, lifestyles and fancy, by the Lunch Group and Guests, Edited by Steve Ditlea, Copyright, 1984. | | | The Scan of the original article was the best I can find because the "Brochure" can actually be read on this site... |
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http://digg.com/apple/Steve_Wozniak_s_famous_ZALTAIR_Prank
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| | ClassicGaming.com - The Atari/Apple Connection |
| | At this time, many of the arcade games were being designed at a research facility that Nolan had bought in Grass Valley (where the Atari 2600 and the 400/800 computers would eventually be developed as well). | | | -Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer. | | | I thought that they would be, in the arcade game business, what Microsoft is now. |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/atariapple
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| | Macworld: Pro File: Apple's Seeds |
| | And he kept asking, "Can it do a disk operating system?" Yes, you could add a floppy disk. | | | And number one and number two at a staff meeting on [Markkula's] lists of things we needed...was a floppy disk and floating point BASIC. | | | The better computer I design, the better step I've made. |
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http://www.macworld.com/2002/10/macbeat/woz.html
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| | Steve Wozniak one inch frame |
| | Steve Wozniak describes his “latest” creation, the Apple II, in this article from Byte magazine, 1977. | | | Didn't want to change the world, just wanted to work on computers | | | Known as a world-class engineer, perhaps the finest microcomputer engineer ever, Steve founded Apple Computer with his friend Steve Jobs, working out of Jobs’ garage. |
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http://eafarris.al.umces.edu/steve_wozniak
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| | USNews.com: Money: Steve Wozniak ventures out |
| | Steve Wozniak's patent number 4,136,359—which became the Apple IIe computer, introduced in 1977 for $1,300–helped launch an entire industry. | | | Since then, he has formed a number of small technology companies, promoted music and cultural festivals, and taught fifth graders how to use computers. | | | Wozniak left Apple, the company he cofounded with Steve Jobs, in 1981 and returned to college at the University of California–Berkeley. |
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/051126/26wozniak.htm?track=rss
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| | An Evening with Steve Wozniak. |
| | I hate sitting at my computer for this kind of stuff. | | | Woz serves up Apple Computer history in his own unique way. | | | Steve explains the early Apple development, and why he wants to be an engineer for life, but never a CEO. |
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http://digg.com/apple/An_Evening_with_Steve_Wozniak.
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| | A conversation with Steve Wozniak - baltimoresun.com |
| | Though out of the spotlight since leaving Apple Computer Inc. in 1985, Steve Wozniak remains revered for his integral role in helping Steve Jobs establish the company in 1976. | | | In an exclusive two-part interview, Apple Computer's co-founder discusses Steve Jobs and the company's roots | | | Steve thinks we met much earlier, but I don't think so. |
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-mac060503,0,7086730.column?page=1
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| | Wozniak, Jobs Together Again |
| | IT publisher and trade show operator IDG has added Apple Computer (Quote, Chart) co-founder Steve Wozniak to the program of Macworld Conference & Expo in January. | | | Take our free Growth Readiness Assessment and find out if your file transfer systems are optimized for growth. | | | It will be the first time in recent memory that Wozniak has spoken at one of the events. |
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http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1545851
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| | TLC :: Hackers: Hackers' Hall of Fame |
| | Just out of college, the two Steves (Wozniak and Jobs) set to work designing computer games (for Atari) and building blue boxes (for themselves). | | | The boys shake hands on April Fools' Day 1976, and Apple Computer is born. | | | The pride of the Homebrew Computer Club, Wozniak trades in his HP programmable calculator and Jobs sells his VW van to finance production from a Palo Alto garage. |
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http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/bio/bio_10.html
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| | This enables one to fairly quickly debug a BASIC program by examining its effect on variables or its course of evolution through statement numbers. | | | This simple program illustrates this "DSP" command with a simple computational program. | | | (b) A similar debugging feature of Steve Wozniak's Apple BASIC interpreter is a method of running the interpreter with a statement number trace, by giving a TRACE command instead of RUN in the command mode of the interpreter. |
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http://oldcomputers.net/byteappleII.html
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| | Steve Wozniak - Wikiquote |
| | Stephen Wozniak (born August 11, 1950) Computer engineer, programmer, co-founder of Apple Computer (with Steve Jobs); often called by his nickname Woz | | | Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. | | | But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything. |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
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| | The Cardinal Inquirer - Talking with The Woz |
| | Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computer, designed the company's earliest computers, bringing advances like a color display to consumers at a relatively low price. | | | A short drive up Blossom Hill Road in Los Gatos, past a sign invoking Zeus, father of many mythological Greek heroes, took this writer to the unassuming office of Steve Wozniak, whom many consider the father of the personal computer. | | | His Apple II was so popular it made Apple in the 1980s the fastest growing company in American history. |
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http://inquirer.stanford.edu/2005/jstaffor/woz.html
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| | Fool.com: Apple's Other Steve (Stock Research) March 2, 2000 |
| | Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL) iCEO Steve Jobs may be the best-known of the company's two founders. | | | The Motley Fool recently zipped over a few questions to Wozniak (he prefers to be called "Woz") to get his take on Apple's current progress and what he's up to today. | | | I look at Apple principally as an investment and have so for a long time, but I'm not as critical as with other stocks. |
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http://www.fool.com/research/2000/features000302.htm
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| | Technorati Tag: Wozniak |
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