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November 21, 2006
I See a Childhood Hero in Person
Steve Wozniak came to Politics & Prose to promote his new book iWoz. He discussed mostly his early days growing up in California, becoming obsessed with electronics, and the early days of starting Apple Computer with Steve Jobs. One of his great stories involved building one of his early computers and using a television as a display, but televisions back in the mid-1970s didn't have a video input, so he needed to open it up and build a video input himself after figuring out how the television circuits worked.
Apple Computer was an early inspiration to me to get me involved in computers, ultimately bringing me to MIT to study Computer Science, and it was great to see Steve Wozniak in person, who was clearly still so excited about design and engineering and the promise of computers and regaled us with stories of his early enthusiasm about trying to changing the world.
Unfortunately, the bookstore was sold out of copies by the time I arrived, so I wasn't able to buy a copy for him to sign, but I still got some good pictures:
Posted by Dean at November 21, 2006 9:29 PM
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