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9 unusual facts about Steve Wozniak


Apple Desktop Bus

ADB was created by Steve Wozniak, who had been looking for a project to work on in the mid-1980s.

Apple II

The Disk II interface, created by Steve Wozniak, was regarded as an engineering masterpiece for its economy of electronic components.

Barry Ptolemy

As of this writing Ptolemy is scheduled to produce and appear in a panel discussion called Transcendent Man LIVE with Ray Kurzweil, Steve Wozniak, Deepak Chopra, Dean Kamen, Michio Kaku, Tan Le with special appearances by Vice President Al Gore, Bill Maher, Quincy Jones and Elon Musk.

Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center

These include Bird Respirator and a variety of inventions ranging from The Barbie doll by Ruth Handler to the Apple II primarily by Steve Wozniak.

Gran Trak 10

Steve Wozniak famously played Gran Trak 10 during the four-day development of a prototype for another Atari game, Breakout.

Jessica Livingston

In early 2007, Livingston released Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (published by Apress), a collection of interviews with famous startup founders, including Steve Wozniak, Mitch Kapor, Ray Ozzie, and Max Levchin.

Lazer's Interactive Symbolic Assembler

Apple II's hi-res display pages (Hi-Res 1: 280 × 160 and Hi-Res 2: 280 × 192) were implemented by Steve Wozniak using two TTL chips.

Raster Blaster

He approached Budge (with the help of Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak) and invited him to join the initial group of EA developers, and leave the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution issues behind.

Ray Tobey

Nakamoto praised the game, and later that day introduced them to Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak.


Disk II

Mike Markkula asked fellow cofounder Steve Wozniak to design a drive system for the computer after finding that a checkbook-balancing program Markkula had written took too long to load from tape.

Group code recording

For the Apple II floppy drive, Steve Wozniak invented a floppy controller which (along with the drive itself) imposed two constraints

Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

The film includes footage of a hacker conference, and interviews with some of the programmers that created the personal computer revolution, including Bill Atkinson, Bill Budge, Doug Carlston, John Draper, Andrew Fluegelman, Lee Felsenstein, Richard Greenblatt, Andy Hertzfeld, David Hughes, Susan Kare, Richard Stallman, Bob Wallace, Robert Woodhead, Steve Wozniak, and others.

Regis McKenna

In that year, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak “approached him and asked for help in launching what was to be the world's first personal computer.”

The Joy of Tech

As of 2006, it has produced one printed compilation, The Best of the Joy of Tech (ISBN 0-596-00578-4) which includes an introduction by David Pogue and a foreword by Steve Wozniak.

The Secret History of Hacking

John Draper, Steve Wozniak and Kevin Mitnick are prominently featured while the film additionally features comments from or else archive footage concerning Denny Teresi, Joybubbles, Mike Gorman, Ron Rosenbaum, Steven Levy, Paul Loser, Lee Felsenstein, Jim Warren, John Markoff, Jay Foster, FBI Special Agent Ken McGuire, Jonathan Littman, Michael Strickland and others.

U.S.–Soviet Space Bridge

The first Space Bridge was an arrangement between the Unison Corporation and Gosteleradio of the USSR for the US Festival, sponsored by computer pioneer Steve Wozniak.

West Coast Computer Faire

It took place on April 16–17, 1977, in San Francisco Civic Auditorium & Brooks Hall, and saw the debut of the Commodore PET, presented by Chuck Peddle, and the Apple II, presented by then-21-year-old Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.


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