Title:Woz.org...Everyone is Welcome
Description:Personal website for Steve the Woz Wozniak. Steve's co-founder of Apple Computer and plays a mean gameboy. Many his comments to e-mail he receives regarding are posted on this site, most notably responses recent movie Pirates Silicon Valley
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Woz.org...Everyone is Welcome
Home
to a free exchange of information,
the way it always should be.
Just
Think
Here is something you don't see every day.
WWW
Search woz.org
Did you know Google has a quot;Mac-Centric quot; search engine?
It only searches Apple related sites. Check it out: www.google.com/mac.html
In Search of the Valley
Woz is featured in a British documentary on Silicon Valley. The film is described as the story of three friends' personal journey into the psyche of Silicon Valley, when in September of 2004 they swapped London for California, spending one month visiting and talking to many of the valley's heavyweights and biggest personalities. Others featured in the movie include Lee Felsenstein, and Apple alumni Andy Hertzfeld, Guy Kawasaki, Dan Kottke, and Jef Raskin.
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Cool Podcast: Connecting
Connecting is the story behind the first computer hackers who, armed with only a telephone, a little technical knowledge and a lot of curiosity, learnt how to exploit the phone system, discovering how it worked and what else it could be made to do. Go where only your ears can take you. Featuring the voices of such legendary figures as Captain Crunch, Joy Bubbles, Mark Bernay and cofounder of Apple computers, Steve Wozniak
Hear gt; gt; gt;
Speaking of Pranks...A
Reader Asks:
I speak
about the Civic Center, and the history that occurred there
- such
as the United Nations being
created in 1945 at the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building. Years
ago,I thought that I read that a version of the Apple had been introduced
at Civic Auditorium at an early computer fair. So the purpose of my question
is really see if a historic event involving the Apple occurred
at the Civic Auditorium. 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.
Woz: Steve
and I had started a company and sold mostly built computers during
1976. I had designed the Apple ][. 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. It would wind up being the first successful,
massively selling, personal computer.
But this industry was just kicking off and we realized that we could probably
sell 1,000 of this great computer per month. That took a lot of money. We had
none, so we went looking. We met Mike Markkula, and he launched us. I had to
leave Hewlett Packard, which was tough.
At this time the [first] West Coast Computer Faire was being planned for Civic
Auditorium. Steve Jobs got the info packet. Both he and I felt that we had such
a good product that we should immediately secure the prime booth spot, which
we did. We also arranged to rent a video projector. This was such an early year
that such projectors were virtually unknown. It was a BIG deal.
The few of us that made up Apple at this time were all there to meet people and
show them what we had. Mike Markkula talked to store owners and gave them legal
paperwork to establish accounts with us and start ordering. We were a rare company
at this time to even have such a professional approach. Almost all the companies
had amateur technologies and amateur business practices. ...More
on this Reply and the prank
A Reader Asks:
Dear Woz,
When you call Apple to order stuff and you give them your name,
do people recognize you and say quot;Hey, your that dude that
created Apple! quot;
Woz: I order Apple stuff online. I doubt that any human ever
sees the names. But once I ordered a gigabit ethernet option. Apple
noticed two months later that only two of these had been ordered,
both by me! I do get noticed every time I buy shareware, and that
brings me a lot of T-shirts that I get good use out of.
Our School Switched to Macs
Hello My name is Phil Grace, I am the tech cooridinator at Heber Springs public schools in Heber Springs, AR. For years our school has been a Windows only school that's how it was when I came here 2 yrs ago. I was also a windows only user for years as well until we had virus problems in our business labs that shut them down for about 2 weeks. During that time I was just fed up with windows so I started to look and investigate alternitive os options mainly Linux. I really enjoyed Linux it is a very good system but the desktop isn't there yet. It's not that user friendly and the mainstream software isn't available. So I moved on in my quest and while doing some research I found out that there hasn't been a virus created for OS X. This really intriged me and I wanted to find out more about Apple. So after seeing the machines that Apple is building, and getting a chance to try one it was love at first sight. I had seen the light of the tech world, this wasn't just a temporary fix like anti-virus software, or windows patches, this was the solution. As soon as I got the chance I started moving in the Apple direction for our district. We do have a ways to go but so far about half of the library now has Mac Minis, one of our business labs that specializes in multimedia is all mac, the new server that serves our whole district is now an xserve, we have a mobile lab with iBooks, and I am typing this on an iMac G5 right now. The students are really getting into Macs and iLife, teachers are really enjoying it to. Woz thank you for the contribution that you made to the world of technology, the world needs a company and computer like Apple.
Phil Grace
Technology Cooridnator
Heber Springs School Districti
Personal Computer History 101
Class, it's time to pay a visit to the Apple
I Owners Club, founded in 1977 by Joe Torzewski. The site contains
over 120 pages detailing the Apple I computer. It shows you what
it was like to actually buy and assemble one. If you've never seen
an Apple I, check this site out and see how the personal computer
revolution began.
Top Subjects
Blue
Box
Radio
Shack
Parc
Xerox
Captain
Crunch
Dial-A-Joke
TV Jammer
The
Article that Changed History?
A magazine article that got me interested in phone phreaking
long ago. The article was labeled "Fiction" in Esquire Magazine,
but it turned out to be real...Woz [Al's note: Guess who's website
that is on]
Featured
Links
Purchase a signed book, photos, and other memorabilia at SignedByWoz.com
Speakers Inquiry
Steve Wozniak is available for selected appearances. Contact:
New Leaf Speakers
45 Main Street, Suite 302 Hudson, MA 01749 USA 978-562-9977
e-mail
Ideas in Motion
On Thursday, September 24th, Steve Wozniak presented a fantastic talk about his experiences getting kids excited about technology in education via a WebEx Ideas in Motion webinar:
CHECK IT OUT
New Beginnings Campaign
The Humane Society of SIlicon Valley just launched a unique opportunity to be part of their new state-of-the-art Animal Community Center, and I rsquo;ve accepted the challenge! Together, we can raise funds to strive for different permanent naming opportunities at the new Center. I hope you rsquo;ll join my team ldquo;Team Woz rdquo; to raise $25,000 for a cat or dog condo at HSSV rsquo;s new home.
FIND OUT MORE
Recent Interview with Woz
JULY 22, 2009: The website is in German but the interview (video) is in English. Woz talks about the iPhone, technology and of course, the Segway match he was currently in.
CHECK IT OUT
Another worthy cause to consider.
My Latest Hobby
Segway Polo.
CHECK IT OUT
New Independent Film now in special edition limited rough cut release:
quot;Camp Woz:
The Admirable Lunacy of Philanthropy quot;
Film Synopsis: Ten 'emotionally and behaviorally challenged' young men from MonmouthCares were welcomed into Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's home, for The Patane Foundation's inaugural Dream Camp. We have provided a sneak peek for Woz fans.
See the trailer and more info: CLICK HERE TO VIEW
Woz as a Cartoon
Tech Titans Including Steve Wozniak, David Jaffe and Nolan Bushnell Among Special Guests Providing Voices for the Twisted New Animated Series from Creator Adam de la Pe ntilde;a ( ldquo;Minoriteam, rdquo; ldquo;Crank Yankers, rdquo; ldquo;The Man Show rdquo;)
Link to the video
The Colbert Report
See the Woz interview
WozClips Video
Various videos posted by Apple enthusiasts.
InfoWorld (Video)
The Week Ahead with Gina Smith
Noteworthy events coming up this week.
Woz Notes
On December 5th, 2008, an excellent episode of Moments that Changed Us aired on AmericanLife TV. Produced and directed by Larry Herskowitz, this program documents the life of Steve Wozniak. Larry and his crew did a couple of days of shooting at the Digibarn in the summer of 2008.
See an excerpt from the show.
Support the Pioneers
A growing list of open source projects.
Check them out.
iPhone
Yes, Woz camped out to get an iPhone just like everybody else. Here are the photos:
Set 01 | Set 10
iPhone Fix
Occassionally your iPhone handset speaker goes out. Here is a very easy fix for it
earbudFix
The Colbert Report
See the Woz interview
GeekSpeak (Audio)
GeekSpeak is a group of professional geeks who discuss the week's latest news and trends. They help people with such things as Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computing. The Geeks also interview technologists, hackers, developers, entrepreneurs, great thinkers, and people with real information to share. GeekSpeak is broadcast live every Saturday at 10 a.m. PST on KUSP/KBDH FM and HD radio, and is also available via podcast at NPR.
Podcasts | Live
Click here to see the news coverage and related notes from my stint on Dancing with the Stars.
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