Steve wozniak, american electronics engineer who was cofounder, with steve jobs, of apple computer and who was the designer of the first commercially successful personal computer. A silicon valley icon and philanthropist for more than thirty years, steve wozniak has helped shape the computing industry with his design of apples first line of products the apple i and ii and influenced the popular macintosh. In partnership with his friend steve jobs, wozniak invented the apple i computer. Wozniak and smith, iwoz from computer geek to cult ebook download as pdf file. What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen. October 2, 2006 personalcomputer pioneer steve wozniak has written an autobiography, iwoz. Steve wozniak has 24 books on goodreads with 98158 ratings. From computer geek to cult icon, in september 2006 by norton publishing. This honest memoir of apple innovator steve wozniaks life runs from a childhood spent discovering how things work to his breakthrough.
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