Wozniak had to simplify the machine with the classic Ping Pong game. In 1976, under an agreement with Jobs, Wozniak created a prototype PCB for the game Pong in four days for Atari in Los Gatos, which produced slot machines. While still at school, Wozniak learned Fortran on his own and began working for Sylvania. It was decided to stop the business, as too risky, after another potential buyer, threatening with a gun, took away the device from them and disappeared. In total, they made and managed to sell about a hundred "boxes" and made good money.
Ready-made "boxes" friends sold for $ 150 apiece, the income was divided equally. At first, the production of one "box" cost Wozniak about $ 80, but then he made a printed circuit board that allowed him to produce 10-20 "boxes" at once, and the cost of one piece fell to $ 40. This business was illegal and quite risky. Jobs organized the handicraft production of these devices for sale. Once Wozniak got through to the Vatican and, introducing himself as Henry Kissinger, asked the Pope to answer the phone. At first, friends had fun, calling to different parts of the world and arranging pranks. Wozniak created the Blue box digital device to hack telephone networks, including international calls. In the fall of that year, Wozniak read an article in Esquire magazine about phone freaks.
In 1971, Bill Fernandez introduces Wozniak, then a student at the College de Anse, to Steve Jobs, a student at Homestead High School in Cupertino. They want to know what's inside the box, and in response they hear: "No, you can't open it."Īfter school, Steve entered the University of Colorado at Boulder, but due to lack of money from his parents, he studied there for only a year and began to study at De Anse College in Cupertino, from where he also soon left.
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While in the 4th grade, Wozniak received his radio amateur license, and in the 8th grade he assembled a complex calculator that won first prize in a city competition held by the BBC.Īccording to Steve Wozniak, school was boring: “Children come to school full of curiosity.
It was his father who instilled in young Steve a love of electronics.Īt school, the boy liked most of all to assemble and disassemble existing calculators, radios and some other electronic devices. His father, Jacob Francis "Jerry" Wozniak (1925-1994) of Los Angeles, a graduate of the California Institute of Technology, worked as an engineer for Lockheed developing missile guidance systems. Steve Wozniak was born on Augin San Jose (California), in the family of an engineer, mother - Margaret Elaine Kern (b.
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I've built things for people all over the country for entertainment, including the first hotel movie rental system and SMPTE timecode readers for the commercial video world,” recalls Steve Wozniak. There I had many friends and a good reputation. “I was an engineer at HP designing the iPhone 5 of the time, their engineering calculators. Even before the advent of Apple, his talent had already been put to good use. Woz is a real inventor, an engineer who sought to solve problems creatively. Moreover, it was Wozniak who developed the first computer of the current IT giant. He is also called The WoZ (Woz - a derivative of the surname) and Another Steve (another Steve). Steve Wozniak is less known in wide circles, but no less significant founder of Apple Corporation.
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