Iwoz : : Computer Geek to Cult Icon : how I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and had fun Doing it
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Once upon a time, computers looked like big, alien vending machines. They had large screens, cryptic switches, huge boxes, and odd lights. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I. Widely affordable and easily understood, Wozniak's invention has been rapidly transforming our world ever since. His life--before and after Apple--is a "home-brew" mix of brilliant discovery and adventure, as an engineer, a concert promoter, a fifth-grade teacher, a philanthropist, and an irrepressible prankster. From the invention of the first personal computer to the rise of Apple as an industry giant, iWoz presents a no-holds-barred, rollicking, firsthand account of the humanist inventor who ignited the computer revolution.--From publisher description.
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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: 313 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0393061434 (hardcover)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Smith, Gina.
SUBJECTS
Wozniak, Steve, -- 1950-
Apple Computer, Inc. -- History.
Computer engineers -- Biography.
Inventors -- Biography.
Computer industry -- History.