The Sophisticated Operating System , or SOS ( / s ɔː s / ), is the primary operating system of the Apple III computer. SOS was developed by Apple Computer and released in October 1980.
72-466: In 1985, Steve Wozniak , while critical of the Apple III's hardware flaws, called SOS "the finest operating system on any microcomputer ever". SOS is a single-tasking single-user operating system. It makes the resources of the Apple III available in the form of a menu -driven utility program as well as a programming application programming interface (API). A single program is loaded at boot time, called
144-552: A US$ 1 chip, while colors in the PAL system are achieved by "accident" when a dot occurs on a line, and he says that to this day he has no idea how it works. During the design stage, Jobs argued that the Apple II should have two expansion slots , while Wozniak wanted eight. After a heated argument, during which Wozniak threatened that Jobs should "go get himself another computer", they decided to go with eight slots. Jobs and Wozniak introduced
216-453: A superintelligence takeover would be good for humans: They're going to be smarter than us and if they're smarter than us then they'll realise they need us ... We want to be the family pet and be taken care of all the time ... I got this idea a few years ago and so I started feeding my dog filet steak and chicken every night because 'do unto others'. In 2016, Wozniak changed his mind again, stating that he no longer worried about
288-844: A 2013 interview, Wozniak said that in 1981, "Steve [Jobs] really took over the project when I had a plane crash and wasn't there." On February 7, 1981, the Beechcraft Bonanza A36TC which Wozniak was piloting (and not qualified to operate ) crashed soon after takeoff from the Sky Park Airport in Scotts Valley , California . The airplane stalled while climbing, then bounced down the runway, broke through two fences, and crashed into an embankment. Wozniak and his three passengers—then-fiancée Candice Clark , her brother Jack Clark, and Jack's girlfriend, Janet Valleau—were injured. Wozniak sustained severe face and head injuries, including losing
360-804: A 2023 open letter from the Future of Life Institute calling for "all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4". In an interview to the BBC in May 2023 Wozniak said that AI may make scams more difficult to detect, noting that "AI is so intelligent it's open to the bad players, the ones that want to trick you about who they are". Wozniak lives in Los Gatos, California . He applied for Australian citizenship in 2012, and has stated that he would like to live in Melbourne , Australia in
432-469: A WOZX cryptocurrency token for funding and blockchain to redistribute the profit to token holders and businesses engaged on the platform. In September 2021, it was reported that Wozniak was also starting a company alongside co-founder Alex Fielding named Privateer Space to address the problem of space debris . Privateer Space debuted the first version of its space traffic monitoring software on March 1, 2022. In 2024, Wozniak sued YouTube in respect to
504-551: A fairly high price". "He made it by cutting the RAM down, by forcing you to swap disks here and there", says Wozniak. He attributed the eventual success of the Macintosh to people like John Sculley "who worked to build a Macintosh market when the Apple II went away". At the end of 2020, Wozniak announced the launch of a new company helmed by him, Efforce. Efforce is described as a marketplace for funding ecologically friendly projects. It used
576-617: A former tech executive who lives in Menlo Park. He also has one sister, Leslie Wozniak. She attended Homestead High School in Cupertino. She is a grant adviser at Five Bridges Foundation, which helps at-risk youths in San Francisco. She once said it was her mother who introduced activism to her and her siblings. The name on Wozniak's birth certificate is "Stephan Gary Wozniak", but his mother said that she intended it to be spelled "Stephen", which
648-483: A heavy influence over the project along with Jef Raskin , who conceived the computer. Later named the "Macintosh 128k", it would become the first mass-market personal computer featuring an integral graphical user interface and mouse . The Macintosh would also go on to introduce the desktop publishing industry with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter , the first laser printer to feature vector graphics . In
720-435: A remote, while others require a physical attachment, or 'dongle', be connected on to the phone when used as a remote. The dongle is required to convert the electrical control signals from the phone into infra red signals that are required by most home audio visual components for remote control. However it is also possible to implement a system that does not require a dongle. Such systems use a stand-alone piece of hardware called
792-488: A scam that was being circulated on the platform using his likeness. Later, he won after a San Jose appeals court ruled YouTube was liable for failing to combat it. Wozniak is listed as the sole inventor on the following Apple patents: In 1990, Wozniak helped found the Electronic Frontier Foundation , providing some of the organization's initial funding and serving on its founding Board of Directors. He
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#1732884800921864-469: A self-taught engineering project, Wozniak designed and built his first computer with his friend Bill Fernandez . Predating useful microprocessors, screens, and keyboards, and using punch cards and only 20 TTL chips donated by an acquaintance, they named it "Cream Soda" after their favorite beverage . A newspaper reporter stepped on the power supply cable and blew up the computer, but it served Wozniak as "a good prelude to my thinking 5 years later with
936-518: A then-semi-retired Intel product marketing manager and engineer named Mike Markkula . At the request of Markkula, Wozniak resigned from his job at HP and became the vice president in charge of research and development at Apple. Wozniak's Apple I was similar to the Altair 8800 , the first commercially available microcomputer, except the Apple I had no provision for internal expansion cards. With expansion cards,
1008-409: A time; character devices can read or write single characters at a time. When powered on, the Apple III runs through system diagnostics, then reads block number zero from the built-in diskette drive into memory and executes it. SOS-formatted diskettes place a loader program in block zero. That loader program searches for, loads, and executes a file named SOS.KERNEL, which is the kernel and API of
1080-485: A tooth, and also suffered for the following five weeks from anterograde amnesia , the inability to create new memories. He had no memory of the crash, and did not remember his name while in the hospital or the things he did for a time after he was released. He would later state that Apple II computer games were what helped him regain his memory. The National Transportation Safety Board investigation report cited premature liftoff and pilot inexperience as probable causes of
1152-555: Is the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum , Silicon Valley Ballet and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose . Also since leaving Apple, Wozniak has provided all the money, and much onsite technical support, for the technology program in his local school district in Los Gatos . Un.U.Son. (Unite Us In Song), an organization Wozniak formed to organize the two US festivals , is now primarily tasked with supporting his educational and philanthropic projects. In 1986, Wozniak lent his name to
1224-471: Is typically done via USB from the computer to mini-USB on the remote or the remotes base station. In 2000, a group of enthusiasts discovered that universal remotes made by UEI and sold under the One For All, RadioShack , and other brands can be reprogrammed by means of an interface called JP1 . IR learning remotes can learn the code for any button on many other IR remote controls. This functionality allows
1296-408: Is what he uses. He has mentioned the surname " Wozniak " being Polish. In the early 1970s, Wozniak's blue box design earned him the nickname "Berkeley Blue" in the phreaking community. Wozniak has credited watching Star Trek and attending Star Trek conventions while in his youth as a source of inspiration for his starting Apple Computer . In his autobiography, iWoz , he also credits
1368-511: The 16-bit Apple IIGS of 1986, and was discontinued altogether when the Apple IIe was discontinued on November 15, 1993 (although the Apple IIe card , which allowed compatible Macintosh computers to run Apple II software and use certain Apple II peripherals, was produced until May 1995). After his career at Apple, Wozniak founded CL 9 in 1985, which developed and brought the first programmable universal remote control to market in 1987, called
1440-493: The Apple I and Apple II computers. In March 1987, Steve Ciarcia published an article in Byte magazine entitled "Build a Trainable Infrared Master Controller", describing a universal remote with the ability to upload the settings to a computer. This device had macro capabilities. Most universal remotes share a number of basic design elements: Certain highly reduced designs such as
1512-475: The Apple III , released the same year, was a commercial failure and was discontinued in 1984. According to Wozniak, the Apple III "had 100 percent hardware failures", and that the primary reason for these failures was that the system was designed by Apple's marketing department, unlike Apple's previous engineering-driven projects. During the early design and development phase of the original Macintosh , Wozniak had
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#17328848009211584-501: The Magnavox brand name. In 1985, Robin Rumbolt, William "Russ" McIntyre, and Larry Goodson with North American Philips Consumer Electronics (Magnavox, Sylvania, and Philco) developed the first universal remote control. In 1987, the first programmable universal remote control was released. It was called the "CORE" and was created by CL 9 , a startup founded by Steve Wozniak , the inventor of
1656-654: The Order of the Eastern Star , associated with the Masons. He was initiated in 1979 at Charity Lodge No. 362 in Campbell, California , now part of Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 292 in Los Gatos. Today he is no longer involved: "I did become a Freemason and know what it's about but it doesn't really fit my tech/geek personality. Still, I can be polite to others from other walks of life. After our divorce
1728-513: The Ray Super Remote , now have content recommendations built directly in to the universal remote control. Smartphones and tablets such as those running Nokia's Maemo (N900) , Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating system can also be used as universal remote controls. A number of devices from vendors such as Samsung , LG and Nokia include a built-in IR port that can be used as
1800-478: The TV-B-Gone or keychain-sized remotes include only a few buttons, such as power and channel/volume selectors. Higher-end remotes have numerous other features: Some universal remotes allow the code lists programmed into the remote to be updated to support new brands or models of devices not currently supported by the remote. Some higher end universal learning remotes require a computer to be connected. The connection
1872-580: The Tom Swift Jr. books as an inspiration for becoming an engineer. In 1969, Wozniak returned to the San Francisco Bay Area after being expelled from the University of Colorado Boulder in his first year for hacking the university's computer system. He re-enrolled at De Anza College in Cupertino before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley , in 1971. In June of that year, for
1944-534: The "CORE". Beyond engineering, Wozniak's second lifelong goal had always been to teach elementary school because of the important role teachers play in students' lives. Eventually, he did teach computer classes to children from the fifth through ninth grades, and teachers as well. Unuson continued to support this, funding additional teachers and equipment. In 2001, Wozniak founded Wheels of Zeus (WOZ) to create wireless GPS technology to "help everyday people find everyday things much more easily". In 2002, he joined
2016-523: The "actions" the buttons perform. The "project" that is created is then downloaded into the remote through a USB cable or, in the most recent models, wirelessly by Bluetooth or Wi-Fi . The newest touch-screen remotes, such as the Logitech 900 and 1100, include an RF transmitter to allow signals to reach locations much farther than the usual range of IR (approximately 6 meters). RF also does not require line of sight. Some touch-screen remote controls, such as
2088-546: The 1970s and 1980s, he is widely recognized as one of the most prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution . In 1975, Wozniak started developing the Apple ;I into the computer that launched Apple when he and Jobs first began marketing it the following year. He was the primary designer of the Apple II , introduced in 1977, known as one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers , while Jobs oversaw
2160-577: The 1983 event turned a profit, he would end his involvement with rock festivals and get back to designing computers. Later that year, Wozniak returned to Apple product development, desiring no more of a role than that of an engineer and a motivational factor for the Apple workforce. Starting in the mid-1980s, as the Macintosh experienced slow but steady growth, Apple's corporate leadership, including Steve Jobs, increasingly disrespected its flagship cash cow Apple II series—and Wozniak along with it. The Apple II division—other than Wozniak—was not invited to
2232-515: The Altair could attach to a computer terminal and be programmed in BASIC . In contrast, the Apple I was a hobbyist machine. Wozniak's design included a $ 25 CPU ( MOS 6502 ) on a single circuit board with 256 bytes of ROM , 4K or 8K bytes of RAM , and a 40-character by 24-row display controller. Apple's first computer lacked a case, power supply, keyboard, and display—all components that had to be provided by
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2304-433: The Apple I and Apple II computers". Before focusing his attention on Apple, he was employed at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he designed calculators. It was during this time that he dropped out of Berkeley and befriended Steve Jobs . Wozniak was introduced to Jobs by Fernandez, who attended Homestead High School with Jobs in 1971. Jobs and Wozniak became friends when Jobs worked for the summer at HP, where Wozniak, too,
2376-696: The Apple II at the April 1977 West Coast Computer Faire . Wozniak's first article about the Apple II was in Byte magazine in May 1977. It became one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers in the world. Wozniak also designed the Disk II floppy disk drive , released in 1978 specifically for use with the Apple II to replace the slower cassette tape storage. In 1980, Apple went public to instant and significant financial profitability, making Jobs and Wozniak both millionaires. The Apple II's intended successor,
2448-542: The Apple had an easy-to-achieve video capability that drew a crowd when it was unveiled. Wozniak designed Apple's first products, the Apple I and II computers and he helped design the Macintosh — because he wanted to use them and they didn't exist. Between Woz and Jobs, Woz was the innovator, the inventor. Steve Jobs was the marketing person. Everything I did at Apple that was an A+ job and that took us places, I had two things in my favor ... I had no money [and] I had had no training. By March 1, 1976, Wozniak completed
2520-536: The Byte Shop, saw the presentation and was impressed by the machine. Terrell told Jobs that he would order 50 units of the Apple I and pay $ 500 (equivalent to $ 2,680 in 2023) each on delivery, but only if they came fully assembled, as he was not interested in buying bare printed circuit boards. Together the duo assembled the first boards in Jobs's parents' Los Altos home; initially in his bedroom and later (when there
2592-406: The Macintosh introduction event, and Wozniak was seen kicking the dirt in the parking lot. Although Apple II products provided about 85% of Apple's sales in early 1985, the company's January 1985 annual meeting did not mention the Apple II division or its employees, a typical situation that frustrated Wozniak. Even with the success he had helped to create at Apple, Wozniak believed that the company
2664-505: The Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It . The book made The New York Times Best Seller list . Universal remote A universal remote is a remote control that can be programmed to operate various brands of one or more types of consumer electronics devices. Low-end universal remotes can only control a set number of devices determined by their manufacturer, while mid- and high-end universal remotes allow
2736-665: The SOS loader from block one, so SOS and ProDOS can co-exist on the same volume. Some software, such as ADTPro , makes use of this to store Apple II and Apple III versions of a program on the same disk, which is then bootable on both systems. Steve Wozniak Stephen Gary Wozniak ( / ˈ w ɒ z n i æ k / ; born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname Woz , is an American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer , computer programmer , philanthropist, and inventor. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Computer with his early business partner Steve Jobs . Through his work at Apple in
2808-713: The Stephen G. Wozniak Achievement Awards (popularly known as "Wozzie Awards"), which he presented to six Bay Area high school and college students for their innovative use of computers in the fields of business, art, and music. Wozniak is the subject of a student-made film production of his friend's (Joe Patane) nonprofit Dream Camp Foundation for high-level-need youth entitled Camp Woz: The Admirable Lunacy of Philanthropy . In March 2015, Wozniak stated that while he had originally dismissed Ray Kurzweil 's opinion that machine intelligence would outpace human intelligence within several decades, Wozniak had changed his mind: I agree that
2880-667: The Universe", Wozniak married Janet Hill, his current spouse. On his religious views, Wozniak has called himself an "atheist or agnostic". He is a member of a Segway Polo team, the Silicon Valley Aftershocks , and is considered a "super fan" of the NHL ice hockey team San Jose Sharks . In 1998, he co-authored with Larry Wilde The Official Computer Freaks Joke Book . In 2006, he co-authored with Gina Smith his autobiography, iWoz : From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented
2952-486: The annual event in 2015 along with Marvel legend Stan Lee . In October 2017, Wozniak founded Woz U , an online educational technology service for independent students and employees. As of December 2018, Woz U was licensed as a school with the Arizona state board. Though permanently leaving Apple as an active employee in 1985, Wozniak chose to never remove himself from the official employee list, and continues to represent
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3024-411: The basic design of the Apple I computer. He alone designed the hardware, circuit board designs, and operating system for the computer. Wozniak originally offered the design to HP while working there, but was denied by the company on five occasions. Jobs then advised Wozniak to start a business of their own to build and sell bare printed circuit boards of the Apple I. Wozniak, at first skeptical,
3096-571: The board of directors of Ripcord Networks , Inc., joining Apple alumni Ellen Hancock , Gil Amelio , Mike Connor, and Wheels of Zeus co-founder Alex Fielding in a new telecommunications venture. Later the same year he joined the board of directors of Danger, Inc. , the maker of the Hip Top . In 2006, Wheels of Zeus was closed, and Wozniak founded Acquicor Technology , a holding company for acquiring technology companies and developing them, with Apple alumni Hancock and Amelio. From 2009 through 2014 he
3168-424: The company Unuson, an abbreviation of "unite us in song", which sponsored two US Festivals , with "US" pronounced like the pronoun, not as initials. Initially intended to celebrate evolving technologies, the festivals ended up as a technology exposition and a rock festival as a combination of music, computers, television, and people. After losing several million dollars on the 1982 festival, Wozniak stated that unless
3240-450: The company at events or in interviews. Today he receives a stipend from Apple for this role, estimated in 2006 to be US$ 120,000 per year. He is also an Apple shareholder. He maintained a friendly acquaintance with Steve Jobs until Jobs's death in October 2011. However, in 2006, Wozniak stated that he and Jobs were not as close as they used to be. In a 2013 interview, Wozniak said that
3312-500: The computer that would eventually make him famous, the Apple I . With the Apple I, Wozniak was largely working to impress other members of the Palo Alto –based Homebrew Computer Club , a local group of electronics hobbyists interested in computing. The club was one of several key centers which established the home hobbyist era, essentially creating the microcomputer industry over the next few decades. Unlike other custom Homebrew designs,
3384-625: The crash. Wozniak did not immediately return to Apple after recovering from the airplane crash, seeing it as a good reason to leave. Infinite Loop characterized this time: "Coming out of the semi-coma had been like flipping a reset switch in Woz's brain. It was as if in his thirty-year old body he had regained the mind he'd had at eighteen before all the computer madness had begun. And when that happened, Woz found he had little interest in engineering or design. Rather, in an odd sort of way, he wanted to start over fresh." Later in 1981, after recovering from
3456-497: The development of its foam-molded plastic case and early Apple employee Rod Holt developed its switching power supply . With human–computer interface expert Jef Raskin , Wozniak had a major influence over the initial development of the original Macintosh concepts from 1979 to 1981, when Jobs took over the project following Wozniak's brief departure from the company due to a traumatic airplane accident. After permanently leaving Apple in 1985, Wozniak founded CL 9 and created
3528-625: The first programmable universal remote , released in 1987. He then pursued several other businesses and philanthropic ventures throughout his career, focusing largely on technology in K–12 schools. As of June 2024, Wozniak has remained an employee of Apple in a ceremonial capacity since stepping down in 1985. In recent years, he has helped fund multiple entrepreneurial efforts dealing in areas such as GPS and telecommunications , flash memory , technology and pop culture conventions, technical education, ecology , satellites and more. Stephen Gary Wozniak
3600-445: The full bonus regardless. Jobs told Wozniak that Atari gave them only $ 700 and that Wozniak's share was thus $ 350 (equivalent to $ 2,400 in 2023). Wozniak did not learn about the actual $ 5,000 bonus (equivalent to $ 34,300 in 2023) until ten years later. While dismayed, he said that if Jobs had told him about it and had said he needed the money, Wozniak would have given it to him. In 1975, Wozniak began designing and developing
3672-445: The future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently. Wozniak stated that he had started to identify a contradictory sense of foreboding about artificial intelligence, while still supporting the advance of technology. By June 2015, Wozniak changed his mind again, stating that
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#17328848009213744-553: The future. Wozniak has been referred to frequently by the nickname "Woz", or "The Woz"; he has also been called "The Wonderful Wizard of Woz" and "The Second Steve" (in regard to his early business partner and longtime friend, Steve Jobs ). "WoZ" (short for " Wheels of Zeus ") is the name of a company he founded in 2002; it closed in 2006. Wozniak describes his impetus for joining the Freemasons in 1979 as being able to spend more time with his then-wife, Alice Robertson, who belonged to
3816-758: The interpreter. Once loaded, the interpreter can then use the SOS API to make requests of the system. The SOS API is divided into four main areas: The Apple III System Utilities program shipped with each Apple III computer. It provides the user interface of the operating system itself, for system configuration and file management . The System Utilities program is menu-driven and performs tasks in three categories: SOS has two types of devices it communicates with via device drivers : character devices and block devices . Examples of SOS character devices are keyboards and serial ports . Disk drives are typical block devices. Block devices can read or write one or more 512- byte blocks at
3888-558: The new venture was short-lived. The two decided on the name "Apple" shortly after Jobs returned from Oregon and told Wozniak about his time spent on an apple orchard there. After the company was formed, Jobs and Wozniak made one last trip to the Homebrew Computer Club to give a presentation of the fully assembled version of the Apple I. Paul Terrell , who was starting a new computer shop in Mountain View, California , called
3960-559: The operating system. The kernel, in turn, searches for and loads a file named SOS.INTERP (the interpreter, or program, to run) and SOS.DRIVER, the set of device drivers to use. Once all files are loaded, control is passed to the SOS.INTERP program. Apple ProDOS uses the same file system as SOS. On a disk formatted by ProDOS, the ProDOS loader and SOS loader are written to blocks zero and one, respectively. The ProDOS loader includes code that can execute on an Apple III, and which will chainload
4032-521: The original Macintosh "failed" under Steve Jobs, and that it was not until Jobs left that it became a success. He called the Apple Lisa group the team that had kicked Jobs out, and that Jobs liked to call the Lisa group "idiots for making [the Lisa computer] too expensive". To compete with the Lisa, Jobs and his new team produced a cheaper computer, one that, according to Wozniak, was "weak", "lousy" and "still at
4104-541: The plane crash, Wozniak re-enrolled at UC Berkeley to complete his Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences degree that he started there in 1971 (and which he would finish in 1986). Because his name was well known at this point, he enrolled under the name Rocky Raccoon Clark, which is the name listed on his diploma, although he did not officially receive his degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences until 1987. In May 1982 and 1983, Wozniak, with help from professional concert promoter Bill Graham , founded
4176-403: The possibility of superintelligence emerging because he is skeptical that computers will be able to compete with human "intuition": "A computer could figure out a logical endpoint decision, but that's not the way intelligence works in humans". Wozniak added that if computers do become superintelligent, "they're going to be partners of humans over all other species just forever". Wozniak signed
4248-550: The remote to learn functions not supported by default for a particular device, making it sometimes possible to control devices that the remote was not originally designed to control. A drawback of this approach is that the learning remote needs a functioning teaching remote. Also, some entertainment equipment manufacturers use pulse frequencies that are higher than what the learning remote can detect and store in its memory. These remotes feature an LCD screen that can be either monochrome or full color. The "buttons" are actually images on
4320-540: The sales of the blue boxes, managed to sell some two hundred of them for $ 150 each, and split the profit with Wozniak. Jobs later told his biographer that if it had not been for Wozniak's blue boxes, "there wouldn't have been an Apple." In 1973, Jobs was working for arcade game company Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos, California . He was assigned to create a circuit board for the arcade video game Breakout . According to Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell , Atari offered $ 100 (equivalent to $ 686 in 2023) for each chip that
4392-431: The screen, which, when touched, will send IR signals to controlled devices. Some models have multiple screens that are accessed through virtual buttons on the touch-screen and other models have a combination of the touch-screen and physical buttons. Some models of the touch-screen remotes are programmed using a graphical interface program on a PC, which allows the user to customize the screens, backgrounds, buttons and even
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#17328848009214464-429: The user to program in new control codes to the remote. Many remotes sold with various electronics include universal remote capabilities for other types of devices, which allows the remote to control other devices beyond the device it came with. For example, a VCR remote may be programmed to operate various brands of televisions . On May 30, 1985, Philips introduced the first universal remote (U.S. Pat. #4774511) under
4536-459: The user. Eventually about 200 Apple I computers were produced in total. After the success of the Apple I, Wozniak designed the Apple II, the first personal computer with the ability to display color graphics, and BASIC programming language built in. Inspired by "the technique Atari used to simulate colors on its first arcade games ", Wozniak found a way of putting colors into the NTSC system by using
4608-482: The wrong direction for the last five years", but Wozniak later objected to this portrayal and stated that he left primarily because he was excited to start CL 9 and recapture the fun of developing a new technology. The Apple II platform financially carried the company well into the Macintosh era of the late 1980s; it was made semi-portable with the Apple IIc of 1984, and was extended, with some input from Wozniak, by
4680-563: Was born on August 11, 1950, in San Jose, California . His mother, Margaret Louise Wozniak (née Kern) (1923–2014), was from Washington state , and his father, Francis Jacob "Jerry" Wozniak (1925–1994) of Michigan , was an engineer for the Lockheed Corporation . Wozniak graduated from Homestead High School in 1968, in Cupertino, California . Steve has one brother, Mark Wozniak,
4752-482: Was chief scientist at Fusion-io . In 2014 he became chief scientist at Primary Data, which was founded by some former Fusion-io executives. Silicon Valley Comic Con (SVCC) is an annual pop culture and technology convention at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California . The convention was co-founded by Wozniak and Rick White, with Trip Hunter as CEO. Wozniak announced
4824-399: Was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little knowledge of circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the fee evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, by using RAM for the brick representation. The fact that this prototype had no scoring or coin mechanisms meant Woz's prototype could not be used. Jobs was paid
4896-603: Was employed, working on a mainframe computer . We first met in 1971 during my college years, while he was in high school. A friend said, 'you should meet Steve Jobs because he likes electronics, and he also plays pranks.' So he introduced us. Their first business partnership began later that year when Wozniak read an article titled "Secrets of the Little Blue Box" from the October 1971 issue of Esquire , and started to build his own " blue boxes " that enabled one to make long-distance phone calls at no cost . Jobs, who handled
4968-433: Was filed I never attended again but I did contribute enough for a lifetime membership." Wozniak was married to slalom canoe gold-medalist Candice Clark from June 1981 to 1987. They have three children together, the youngest being born after their divorce was finalized. After a high-profile relationship with actress Kathy Griffin , who described him on Tom Green's House Tonight in 2008 as "the biggest techno-nerd in
5040-490: Was hindering him from being who he wanted to be, and that it was "the bane of his existence". He enjoyed engineering, not management, and said that he missed "the fun of the early days". As other talented engineers joined the growing company, he no longer believed he was needed there. By early 1985, Wozniak left Apple again and sold most of his stock. Media coverage attributed his departure to disagreements with Apple management, quoting his statement that Apple had "been going in
5112-552: Was later convinced by Jobs that even if they were not successful they could at least say to their grandchildren that they had had their own company. To raise the money they needed to build the first batch of the circuit boards, Wozniak sold his HP scientific calculator while Jobs sold his Volkswagen van . On April 1, 1976, Jobs and Wozniak formed the Apple Computer Company (now called Apple Inc. ) along with administrative supervisor Ronald Wayne , whose participation in
5184-547: Was no space left) in the garage. Wozniak's apartment in San Jose was filled with monitors, electronic devices, and computer games that he had developed. The Apple I sold for $ 666.66. Wozniak later said he had no idea about the relation between the number and the mark of the beast , and that he came up with the price because he liked "repeating digits". They sold their first 50 system boards to Terrell later that year. In November 1976, Jobs and Wozniak received substantial funding from
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