How Steve Wozniak Brought Color to Personal Computers
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/01/Steve_Wozniak_Creativity_in_the_21st_Century
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recalls the moment he stumbled upon the idea of how to put color into personal computers. The inspiration came during a sleepless four-day and four-night design session while building the Atari game Breakout. “That was probably one of the biggest things Apple ever did,” he says.
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Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and philanthropist in conversation at the Discovery Forum 2010 with Emmy-award winning journalist Dana King from CBS 5 Eyewitness News.
Renowned technology pioneer Steve Wozniak speaks to the importance of hands-on learning and encouraging creativity, and how the Bay Area Discovery Museum is a critical resource for preparing children for the challenges of the 21st century.
The Discovery Forum serves to increase awareness about the importance of childhood creativity, and raises support for the Museum’s educational exhibitions and programs. – Bay Area Discovery Museum
A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America’s leading innovators.
In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for “single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers.”
Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak “adopted” the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose.
Steve is currently a member of the board of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony solutions, and Danger, Inc., developer of a end-to-end wireless Internet platform.
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Well Job’s didn’t …
Well Job’s didn’t leave, he was pushed out by the CEO of Apple, John Sculley, for being too strict and demanding too much of his employees. After Jobs was pushed out, Gates saw the opportunity to become big-dog in the computing world, and released Windows 3, basically a copy of Job’s original OS. At this point, Jobs was on to better things at his start-up company, Nextstep, and couldn’t really do anything about Gate’s theft.
@baconboy7227 Had …
@baconboy7227 Had his management style really been no-bullshit, he wouldn’t have lost his work to the “other d-bag” (Bill =P). And then he left for how many years? ^.^
But yeah he was one of a manager though. I’ll concur with that.
^.^ That’s the good …
^.^ That’s the good Steve. the other one; the corporate douche…
Cool story
Cool story
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Being a …
@RyanR242
Being a billionaire is cool and all, but it must be incredibly rewarding for Woz to know that he’s changed all of humanity for the better until the end of our species. Now that is pretty exciting. A better legacy than any king or politician.
Well Steve’s …
Well Steve’s douchiness has advanced Apple, along with Woz’s genius. Jobs described Apple, from day 1, as being a place we’re negative traits were kept in check by the team, resulting in a positive outcome. As a side note, though, I do like Job’s no-bullshit management style. It keeps everyone focused and has delivered great products.
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Gotta thank Steve …
Gotta thank Steve Wozniak for being part of Apple
Huge respect Woz.
Huge respect Woz.
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For geeks, but for business people Jobs>Woz. As baconboy7227 comments above if the two hadn’t been together personal computing today would be a very different thing, probably not for the better.
Ah, the better …
Ah, the better Steve is a Feynman.
The King
The King
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Wrong. If it …
Wrong. If it weren’t for Microsoft computing would be in the dark ages. Bill Gates and Ballmer were true pioneers. Look at it today. 98% market share for Windows!
If one Steve didn’t …
If one Steve didn’t have the other Steve, computing today would have been vastly different. Here’s to teamwork.
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The better Steve.
The better Steve.
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