[GRLUG] Steve Wozniak on ToTN:SF

[Michael Mol]

I would take issue with their requirements.  I'd like to add
"affordable to the middle class" and "uses a QWERTY keyboard" to the
list.  While that still doesn't make the Apple ][ the first (And I
thus stand corrected), it does change the list a bit.  Guess I'm just
a whippersnapepr.

But the podcast is still worth listening to.

BTW...where's the Tandy CoCo 3 on that list?

On 10/9/06, David Pembrook <david at pembrook.net> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
>
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