I just had lunch with Steve Wozniak

[JulesMaximus]

Is he the guy who invented the paperclip?

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
how the fk do people on this forum not know wozniak?

I just asked myself the same thing... how sad.

Seriously... wow. Wozniak invented the personal computer. Jobs just sold it.

 

[mordantmonkey]

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: sygyzy
I am surprised how many people don't know who he is. This is one the cases where it's not cool to be dumb.

Same.

Besides Wozniak > Jobs.

agreed. everything good about apple i put to wozniak. now that's probably an over-generalization but it pretty much sums up my feelings.

even if you hate apple, it was instrumental in the beginnings of personal computing!

 

[Lithium381]

Originally posted by: Riceball
Was it worth the 90 or so bucks you paid?

Nope, but it was worth the $4.50 i paid for parking.

He actually created nearly everything himself, Jobs, while a nerd too, simply had more business ambition.

 

[1sikbITCH]

I know who he is but honestly only from watching The Pirates of Silicon Valley several times over the years.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
how the fk do people on this forum not know wozniak?

I just asked myself the same thing... how sad.

same

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

Woz is cool. He was the keynote speaker at my graduation. Woot!

 

[Jadow]

Yeah, WOZ is a cool guy from what I've seen and read.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
how the fk do people on this forum not know wozniak?

I believe most of the responses were sarcastic. But, I could be wrong.

Why would a Windows user,
know anything about an apple person? I did not recall the name.




Do you know who Thomas Watson was?

He worked for Mr Bell.


Who is Mr Bell?? You ask....??

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/bellag.html

 

[Lithium381]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
how the fk do people on this forum not know wozniak?

I believe most of the responses were sarcastic. But, I could be wrong.

Why would a Windows user,
know anything about an apple person? I did not recall the name.




Do you know who Thomas Watson was?

He worked for Mr Bell.


Who is Mr Bell?? You ask....??

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/bellag.html

Woz was around before the whole IBM/Apple split, he fathered the modern PC as we know it.......

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: Lithium381

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
how the fk do people on this forum not know wozniak?

I believe most of the responses were sarcastic. But, I could be wrong.

Why would a Windows user,
know anything about an apple person? I did not recall the name.




Do you know who Thomas Watson was?

He worked for Mr Bell.


Who is Mr Bell?? You ask....??

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/bellag.html

Woz was around before the whole IBM/Apple split, he fathered the modern PC as we know it.......

Hmm I thought the Mr Bell, was the Grandfather to the PC, as Bell Labs invented
the Transistor.

http://www.bell-labs.com/history/

Microelectronics research at Bell Labs began the same day the semiconductor field began, when three Bell Labs researchers invented the transistor, and our contributions have never slacked since.

 

[imported_LoKe]

I didn't know who he was. I ignore all the apply hype.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
how the fk do people on this forum not know wozniak?

We
1) were born after 1970
or
2) could give two sh!ts about anything Apple

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron

Originally posted by: Lithium381

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
how the fk do people on this forum not know wozniak?

I believe most of the responses were sarcastic. But, I could be wrong.

Why would a Windows user,
know anything about an apple person? I did not recall the name.




Do you know who Thomas Watson was?

He worked for Mr Bell.


Who is Mr Bell?? You ask....??

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/bellag.html

Woz was around before the whole IBM/Apple split, he fathered the modern PC as we know it.......

Hmm I thought the Mr Bell, was the Grandfather to the PC, as Bell Labs invented
the Transistor.

http://www.bell-labs.com/history/

Microelectronics research at Bell Labs began the same day the semiconductor field began, when three Bell Labs researchers invented the transistor, and our contributions have never slacked since.

Pretty sure William Shockley invented the transistor

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron

Originally posted by: Lithium381

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
how the fk do people on this forum not know wozniak?

I believe most of the responses were sarcastic. But, I could be wrong.

Why would a Windows user,
know anything about an apple person? I did not recall the name.




Do you know who Thomas Watson was?

He worked for Mr Bell.


Who is Mr Bell?? You ask....??

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/bellag.html

Woz was around before the whole IBM/Apple split, he fathered the modern PC as we know it.......

Hmm I thought the Mr Bell, was the Grandfather to the PC, as Bell Labs invented
the Transistor.

http://www.bell-labs.com/history/

Microelectronics research at Bell Labs began the same day the semiconductor field began, when three Bell Labs researchers invented the transistor, and our contributions have never slacked since.

Pretty sure William Shockley invented the transistor

William Shockley worked for Bell Labs.

 

[sygyzy]

It's not enough that there are dumb people in this thread, but they are actually defending their ignorance!

 

[ChaoZ]

Funny that I just read an article about him on yahoo news.

 

[AmigaMan]

wow, the ignorance on this board is amazing. you don't have to be a "fanboy" to know who Woz is. did you people think PC's were cool 15 years ago? No, because they were for boring business people and everyone cool had a Commodore, Atari, or Apple. But I guess 15 years ago 95% of ATOT wasn't born yet.

 

[benliong]

Originally posted by: LivinLaVivaPollo
Woz is cool. He was the keynote speaker at my graduation. Woot!

Wow, that's cool. But isn't the speech thing at graduation called commencement speech or something?

Woz was cool. I honestly didn't know anything about him or very little about Steve Jobs before I switched to using an ibook. That being said, from listening to him on one of the OScon speeches on IT Conversations and TWIT, he's really cool and down to earth guy, and we won't have apple computer if he was there alone doing his thing without steve jobs.

 

[Excelsior]

He was the fvcking brains behind Apple to begin with.

 

[0roo0roo]

well to be fair he was half the brains. steve had to basically force him to leave hp? or whatever engineering job he had to start apple. so u need both of them, without steve theres no first apple and woz stays in a cubicle the rest of his life. without woz steve is just a big mouth

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
who?

Are you effing kidding? :shocked:

Originally posted by: AmigaMan
wow, the ignorance on this board is amazing. ... But I guess 15 years ago 95% of ATOT wasn't born yet.

Bingo!

 

[datalink7]

My dad was a security guard for apple back when they were first getting huge. Wozniak used to hire him for $500 to do security at his parties at his house. My dad said he had one huge room with what seemed like every arcade game possible.

 

[sygyzy]

Originally posted by: benliong

Originally posted by: LivinLaVivaPollo
Woz is cool. He was the keynote speaker at my graduation. Woot!

Wow, that's cool. But isn't the speech thing at graduation called commencement speech or something?

Woz was cool. I honestly didn't know anything about him or very little about Steve Jobs before I switched to using an ibook. That being said, from listening to him on one of the OScon speeches on IT Conversations and TWIT, he's really cool and down to earth guy, and we won't have apple computer if he was there alone doing his thing without steve jobs.

You are right. They don't give keynotes at graduations. The Crazy Chicken Life must be a) mistaken or b) lying

 

[Rubycon]

Watch this for cryin' out loud!