[GRLUG] Steve Wozniak on ToTN:SF

[Michael Mol]

On 10/9/06, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> Michael Mol wrote:
> > I don't know if anyone else noticed, but Steve Wozniak made an
> > appearance on the podcast of Talk of the Nation: Science Friday this
> > past Friday.  For those who don't know, he developed the first
> > personal computer, and is the major reason we use computers for
> > day-to-day tasks.
> >
> > Anyway, here's the URL:
> > http://media.libsyn.com/media/sciencefriday/scifri-2006092923.mp3
> >
> >
> Umm... He developed the first 'MAC' personal computer. If you want to
> credit him with popularizing the GUI then that's fine but there were
> personal computers before the Woz. I'm sure we also would have been
> using computers for day to day tasks without him. The computer
> revolution was already happening he just helped put a GUI on it.

he was barely part of the Mac development team.  He was more involved
in the Apple 1 and Apple 2, the two systems that commoditized
computers and made them accessible to hobbyists and, later, home
users.

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