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For the most part, I've put
the last 10 years into the local schools. But regarding Apple:
I wrote our first BASIC single handed, while designing
the Apple I and Apple ][ computers and a ton of peripherals including
the floppy and writing our mini-OS's and lots of support code. And don't
forget that the Apple I was the first small computer ever to come with
a keyboard and look like a typewriter. The Apple ][ was the third such
one and was the first of this breed to be completely assembled, the first
in a plastic case, the first with a cool switching power supply that permitted
plastic, the first with a large DRAM capability, the first with color
graphics, the first with hi-res, the first with sound, the first with
paddles, the first with game commands in the BASIC, the first with BASIC
in ROM, the second to use your free home TV (Apple I was first), and a
few more important things that shaped personal computers forever. I did
what Ed Roberts and Bill Gates and Paul Allen did and tons more, with
no help. That's not clear yet.
,I did give
a LOT of stock to early employees that had none because it was the right
thing to do morally. I was determined to be an engineer and a good person
and never a politician and never run a company and I achieved that. I
only served at the bottom of Apple's org chart all these years. That covers
the basics, other questions I have received are answered below in more
depth.
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- School Comments
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-1st West Coast Computer Faire and a great prank
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-A satisfied customer
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-Future Goals, RISK vs. CISK, and Jeff Raskin
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-Advice and pie
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-All PCs are Macs?, Road to success
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-On rejoining Apple, Employee Comments on Apple
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-Playing Tetris
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-Ex NASA engineer talks about Macs at NASA
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-Simplifying life, e-mail
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-Motorcycles, the "finger", fears
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-Life and College
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-Computer Stories
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-Woz comments on the A&E Biography Special
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-OSX, Money
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-Jobs, the website, Motorola
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-Apple ][ Background History
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-Advice on Living in the Valley
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-The new "Cube"
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-Atari and Breakout, the Real Story
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-Woz buys some shareware, "Thinking Different"
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-Being a Good Person, The Rise and Fall of Apple
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-Comments on being inducted
to into the Inventor's Hall of Fame
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-The Dot Com Mindset, The early Apple operating system
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-US Festivals, Apple Logo, Apple Clones
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-How a program works, Jobs differences
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-Schools and Macs, kid's questions
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-WozCam, OSX
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-Woz helps a reader with his network
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-Motorola and Apple, e-mail surges
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-Poor Microsoft
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-Apple clones, Angry Apple customer
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-Woz and the Secret Service: "The infamous $2 bill incident"
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-Naming of the Blue Box
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-Woz.org comments, Powerbook suggestions
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-The WozCam, Infinite Loop
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-"Pirates", Apple in the Military
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-Early Apple schematics, consumers and DV
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-Everything about Jobs he made you afraid to ask
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-Love, math and Bahai
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-A readers success story
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-THe single mouse button controversy
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-Woz? Think Again, PC '76, G4 prices
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-The Name Apple ; ), Kids and Electronics
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-$666 for an Apple?,Ten Questions to Woz
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-Bare board Apple, Kayaks
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-Writing a book, Apple to the core
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-Nintendo High Scores, Wozniak Name, Museum "Down Under"
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-Education, Conformity, Banner ads
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-Old equipment, Jobs Now, Heros
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-Skulley, G4, Learning Electronics
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-Money from Blue boxes, Lots on Hacking
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-How many hours did you work?, Operating Systems, Drugs
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-Extreme Mac Users, Postfix
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-16 Questions, Did Jobs "Split" Apple
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-Today's heros are rich, Linux
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-US Festival, Integer BASIC
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-Polish Jokes, Resigning from Apple
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-Website, $2 Bill incident, Current Fantasy
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-Plane Crash, Woz Cams
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-Games,Tenet,
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ARPANet, Captain Crunch
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-Microsoft Rules
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-Thoughts on OS8
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Millenium 100, Interview with Woz
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Jobs' "Reality Distortion Field", Pranks
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Dell, Flying, Apple Logo, Path Apple took
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Education, current activities
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Honesty, Early HomeBrew schematics,
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US Festival, Atari-Atari-Atari (is this Nolan?)
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How I'd change the Apple, most important contributions of Apple
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US Festival, getting idea for a computer
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Thoughts on Apple's new OSX,
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What created interest in technology, illegal Apple clone, Jobs/Woz:Lennon/McCartney
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Original Apple schematic, BASIC, bigotry
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Apple and fans, New uses for Apple ][
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AOL, OSX, Macs & Graphics
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Education, Magnet schools, jokes
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Micorsoft, autobiography, e-mail
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Apple stories
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Microsoft monopoly, Apple in schools
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Old Apple boxes
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Microsoft, current computers in use
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Woz philosophy, early schematics
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LINUX, music, gaming
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Jobs as CEO, learning electronics
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Early computer days, LINUX
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Egos,thoughts on Jobs and Gil Amelio and Skulley
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Current comuter use, Breakout, engineering
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Apple ][ System, Apple ][ stories
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Wozcam, slashdot, Microsoft
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Advice on skills
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Parc Xerox, Apple service
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Woz or Steve, Selling first Apple
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Signature edition Apples, Hypercard
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Apple Mac mouse button, life changes
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Unusual telephone numbers
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Current Apple involvement
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Playing games in hospital, electronics
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ANdy Hertzfeld, Newton, T.H.E. Spreadsheet
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Jobs & Microsoft, Woz signature, computer games , US
festival
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Open Source Movement, Jobs, Breakout Atari, Hypercard
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Sharing code, Xerox, can Jobs code, Newton Message
Pad
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New use for Apple ][, Apple ][ regrets, disabilities
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What's next, switching from Mac, eMate, Bell & Howell
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Feelings on the Mac, current Apple involvement, IBM computer use,
"Triumph of the Nerds"
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Jobs & Lisa, meeting first wife on dial-a-joke,
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The infamous Blue Box, the BASIC language creation
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Memories of Apple ][e, what HP calculators influenced the Apple,
20th anniversary Mac
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Close encounters with Woz, thoughts on SPAM, US Festival, Sinclair computers.
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