![]() WOZNIAK: I've been having a lot of fun everyday. STEVE WOZNIAK (Co-founder, Apple Computer): It sure is, yeah. And I know that having fun is one of Steve Wozniak's prime realities about life, is it not, Steve? He's also co-author with Gina Smith of a new book called iWoz: From the Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It. I'm hoping he'll talk about that a little bit. He's the founder and CEO of Wheels of Zeus. And Steve Wozniak, or as the Woz, as he's been called recently, meaning the last 30 years. Steve Wozniak went on to co-found Apple Computer with Steve Jobs, where he became known as the driving engineering force behind the company's innovative early designs. And it was what today we know as the Apple I, and it sparked a revolution in computing, starting to put the personal into personal computers. It had a TV screen, not a paper tape or a printout. ![]() You could type on it instead of having to flip toggle switches or deal with punch cards. It had features that no one had ever seen before, features like a keyboard. It was a regular meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club: a discussion of chips, wires, the offerings of a growing number of electronics manufacturers.īut at one meeting in 1975, a club member named Steve Wozniak set up a computer he had designed and built on his own. ![]() Just over 30 years ago, a group of engineers, hackers, computer enthusiasts met in what today we call Silicon Valley. This is TALK OF THE NATION: SCIENCE FRIDAY. ![]()
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