| An interesting guy [message #73371] |
Sat, 30 September 2006 11:30 |
excelav
Messages: 2130
Registered: July 2005
Location: Metro Detroit
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I'm sure this will be an interesting read.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/287061_applebook30.ht ml
I got to meet Steve Wozniak in 2000 when he gave a speech at MacGroup Detroit.
www.macgroup.org. He told the story of how he created the first practical
PC. the story was vary interesting and his antidotes were vary funny.
His father was a rocket scientist/mathematics guy at Raytheon corp., he taught
Woz advanced mathematics. Woz use mathematics to shrink down the size of
the chips to make a smaller computer that could do more tasks. He also figured
out that he could use one chip that could do three things, instead of three
chips, and save more space and money. He did things like adding an electric
typewriter key board and a CRT monitor.
He changed the world, companies like IBM more than likely, would have kept
computers corporate and vary expensive. He made computers more affordable
and accessible to everybody. Woz was definitely a whiz kid.
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