iWoz
Subtitle: computer geek to cult icon : how I invented the personal computer, co-founded Apple, and had fun doing it
By: Steve Wozniak with Gina Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Gina
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780393061437
Subjects: Wozniak, Steve, -- 1950-; Apple Computer, Inc. -- History; Computer engineers -- United States -- Biography; Inventors -- United States -- Biography; Computer industry -- United States -- History
Genres: Biography
Description: 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