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Steve Wozniak, your friendly iPhone 4 line chauffeur
Apple co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs couldn’t be more diametrically opposite individuals. Jobs, he of the legendary temper and keen business mind, is not someone you really want to rile up. Woz, meanwhile, is a concert loving, Segway riding, TV Dancing, and Tetris-playing engineer, who despite his illustrious accomplishments, remains a lovable geek and [...]
Continue reading...Apple fires engineer who let Woz play around with 3G iPad
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Remember this Santa Clausian photo of Steve Wozniak holding an iPad 3G a few weeks back? Well it turns out that Apple recently fired the engineer who let Woz play around with the iPad for a few minutes, presumably because he wasn’t allowed to show the device to anyone. Woz recently spoke about what transpired: But I [...]
Continue reading...Woz scores 3G iPad, says it’s “better than I ever imagined”
Sunday, April 4, 2010
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Ah, it’s good to be king.. or a co-founder of Apple at least. While everyone else is busy unboxing wi-fi only models of their iPad, Apple co-founder and uber geek role model Steve Wozniak is gallivanting around town with a 3G equipped iPad. And his thoughts? “iPad delight…wow this is better than I ever [...]
Continue reading...How Steve Wozniak brought color to the personal computer [Video]
Saturday, February 6, 2010
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With Apple now over 30 years old, it’s sometimes easy to forget that they were on the vanguard of technological innovation years before the Mac came to be, and decades before the iPod and iPhone took over the world. The Apple II, which was introduced at the West Coast Computer Faire in 1977, helped launch [...]
Continue reading...Steve Wozniak, inventor and Tetris Champion?
Monday, January 4, 2010
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is an engineering legend who naturally holds a place in the inventors hall of fame. But there’s a lot more to Woz than his role in designing the personal computer. Not only did he put on 2 massive music festivals in the early 80’s, but he’s also one of the world’s [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs sporting the original popped collar
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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Talk about contrasting styles. Woz is smiling at the camera while wearing an ID badge and an Apple belt buckle of all things. Steve Jobs, meanwhile, looks serious but is open to party, as evidenced by his popped collar. Together, they’re holding an Apple I motherboard.
Continue reading...Steve Wozniak stars in Datsun 280-ZX commercial from early 80’s
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Now this is certainly interesting - Woz advertising for a sports car?! We’re not sure when this commercial was shot, but the Datsun 280ZX was sold from 1979-1983 so we can at least narrow it down to the early 80’s. Nissan eventually purchased the Datsun brand in 1986, leaving Woz without transport until the Segway [...]
Continue reading...When Steve Wozniak put together a US Music Festival
Monday, December 21, 2009
Check out this photo of Steve Wozniak hangin’ out with Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth at the 1983 US Festival in California, a badass music festival which attracted hundreds of thousands of music fans and was sponsored and funded by Woz himself. Yep, you read that correctly - Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak actually put [...]
Continue reading...5 Questions with Steve Wozniak
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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An interesting interview with Woz talking about Fusion-IO, technology, Apple, and his days growing up in Silicon Valley. Woz is always a great and engaging interview and it’s well-worth checking out. via BusinesWeek
Continue reading...How Steve Wozniak invented the Personal Computer [Video]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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Check out this extremely enthusiastic and informative video of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak discussing how he developed the Apple I and the Apple II. Woz goes into interesting detail regarding his thought process at the time and how he and Steve Jobs up and decided to create Apple Computer. What’s also interesting is that the Apple [...]
Continue reading...Photo Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak circa 1979
Friday, November 27, 2009
A throwback photo from 1979 featuring a mustachioed Steve Jobs with a clean-cut and beardless Steve Wozniak on an Apple II. If there were ever a photo that highlighted the difference in personality, at least bac then, between Jobs and Woz, then this is it. Jobs is casually hovering around with shaggy hair, a mustache, [...]
Continue reading...Original Apple I signed by Woz fetches $18,000 on eBay
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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Talk about shelling out some serious cash for a piece of nostalgia, someone on eBay just purchased an original Apple I signed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak for a whopping 18 grand. And according to the seller, he’s not even sure that it still works! The eBay product description notes: I do not know if it is [...]
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Monday, June 28, 2010
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