The woz  

Stephen Gary Wozniak

( The Woz! )

   

Woz before Apple

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   Woz was raised in Sunnyvale, California. His father, Jerry, was an engineer at Lockheed and was a guiding hand for him. Influenced by the character Tom Swift, from the series of books, Woz was not inhibited to play with electronics. He never took a computer building course or read a 'How-to' book. He tinkered and learned on his own.

By the time he was 11 he had built his first computer - it played Tic-Tac-Toe! Throughout his High School years at Homestead High in Silicon Valley, Woz designed more than 50 computers - on paper.

After three years at the University of California at Berkeley, he took some time off to earn money to go back to school. He got a job as an engineer at Hewlitt Packard and loved it! While designing calculators, Woz realized that the tiny microprocessors used in calculators were cheap and could be used in his computer designs. He was now able to trim his schematic diagram down to a single page!

In 1975, he joined the Homebrew Computer Club at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He brought his designs and schematics to their meetings. He was a hit! People gathered around him and asked questions. His presence added a new feeling to the club. There was talk of a computer revolution - that computers would become cheap enough to be owned by everyone. This is where he met Steven Jobs, and together they formed the Apple Computer company.

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