Steve Wozniak

Stephan Gary "The Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950) is one of the original co-founders of Apple Computer, with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976. He is officially designated employee #1 and served as VP of Engineering.The First 10 Apple Employees: Where Are They Now? by Jay Yarow, Business Insider. 2011-05-24.Who were the original Members of the Apple Board of Directors? by Garrick Saito, Elevation Partners, Quora. 2016-03-24.
==History==
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Wozniak graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, which would later be attended by Steve Jobs. In 1969, fellow classmate Bill Fernandez introduced Jobs to Wozniak while the latter was washing his car.Apple's first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez by Jason Hiner, Tech Republic. 2014-12-05. In 1971, Wozniak and Fernandez worked together on their first computer board, called Cream Soda, which used s, while consuming Cragmont Cream Soda.Cream soda – The first computer by Shashwat Pradhan, Emberify Blog. 2014-10-01.9.9 Apple by Gavi Fried and Jon Sweitzer-Lamme, Bit by Bit. Archived 2012-10-13. After reading about phone in an October 1971 issue of , Wozniak built "blue boxes" to make free phone calls and once called the in an attempt to reach . Jobs sold the blue boxes for around $170; some were obtained by the after blue box customers got caught using them.The Definitive Story of Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Phone Phreaking by Phil Lapsley, The Atlantic. 2013-02-20.
In 1973, while employed at Hewlett-Packard, Wozniak started the first Dial-A-Joke service in San Francisco in his spare time with rented answering equipment.The World According to Woz by Gary Wolf, Wired. 1998-09-01.
In 1975, Wozniak and Jobs collaborated at Atari on the design of the video game Breakout,Breakout - Jobs and Woz Bust Through by William Hunter, The Dot Eaters. 2013-03.The Making of Breakout, Retro Gamer. 2014-05-13. which led him to begin work on a system that would become the Apple I.How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch by Steve Wozniak, Gizmodo. 2014-05-01.
===Wozniak at Apple===
Wozniak designed the logic board and hand coded the original BASIC interpreter for the Apple I and II computers.Why didn't the early Apple II's use Fans? by Steve Wozniak, Woz.org. Archived 2012-11-04. He was designated an Apple Fellow for his work.Hertzfeld, Andy. Credit Where Due,Folklore.org, January 1983. Retrieved May 26, 2006.
When Wozniak discovered that some of Apple's early garage employees did not receive any stock options in the company, he offered them 10 million worth of his personal shares through what was called the "Woz Plan".When Steve Jobs Refused To Give Early Apple Employees Stock, Steve Wozniak Offered Them $10 Million Of His, by Alyson Shontell, Business Insider. 2014-09-05 Wozniak stated that he has remained on Apple's payroll since day one, still drawing a "small" paycheck and reporting directly to co-founder Steve Jobs. Wozniak added, "Since he died, I can’t be fired."Steve Wozniak is still on Apple’s payroll four decades after co-founding the company by John Shinal, CNBC. 2018-01-18.
==Media portrayals==
Wozniak was portrayed by , , and in dramatizations of his relationship with Jobs in the films Pirates of Silicon Valley, Jobs, and Steve Jobs, respectively.Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999), Internet Movie Database. Accessed 2020-02-09.Jobs (2013), Internet Movie Database. Accessed 2020-02-09.Steve Jobs (2015), Internet Movie Database. Accessed 2020-02-09.
==Video gallery==
Wozniak Pong, Steve Jobs & Atari|Denver Apple Pi club, Oct. 4, 1984
The Machine That Changed The World - 1992 interview with Steve Wozniak|
Steve Wozniak on the Early Days of Apple|
Why Steve Wozniak Left Apple
Datsun 280ZX Commercial ft. Steve Wozniak
Wozniak Datsun ad (remake 2007)
==References==
===Books===
*Woz's Wanderings by Owen W. Linzmayer, Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company, p.27-39. No Starch Press. 2004.
==See also==
*List of early Apple Computer employees
==External links==
*Woz.org official website
*Stephen Wozniak at All about Steve Jobs
*Steve Wozniak at Apple II Bits
*Steve Wozniak '86 at Cal Reunions, Berkeley
*Steve Wozniak at Folklore
*Stephan (Steve) Wozniak (Woz) at IEEE Computer Society
*Steve Wozniak at Stanford University Collections
*Steve Wozniak timeline at Timetoast
* at Wikipedia
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