[GRLUG] Steve Wozniak on ToTN:SF

[David Pembrook]

For an interesting blast from the past, try 
http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml

This page goes back a long way back in the history of the "personal 
computer"


Michael Mol wrote:
> 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.
>
>