Steve Wozniak

And followed by the Apple ][ plus I think you could purchase a kit with a replacement ROM and case face plate to convert the Apple ][ to an Apple ][ plus Edit Add; Integer BASIC : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_BASIC Applesoft BASIC : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applesoft_BASIC Officially Woz : http://www.woz.org/letters/apple-basic/

Yes. More to the point, Woz has approved of the way people were portrayed in "Pirates of Silicon Valley", including himself. "It's funny, but even with all the things that aren't said outright, a great number of people, like yourself, saw a lot of things in that movie that are totally true. The personalities were very accurately portrayed." "The personalities and incidents are accurate in the sense that they all occured but they are often with the wrong parties (Bill Fernandez, Apple employee #4, was with me and the computer that burned up in 1970) and at the wrong dates (when John Sculley joined, he had to redirect attention from the Apple III, not the Mac, to the Apple ][ ) and places (Homebrew Computer Club was at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)." http://www.woz.org/taxonomy/term/2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley

Just to mention that Woz has his website here: http://www.woz.org/

Apparently it was not homebrew; here are a couple articles saying that he rented the equipment from the phone company. So the dial-a-joke thing might have been entirely legit. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.09/woz.html http://www.woz.org/letters/pirates/07.html I'm guessing that when the article describes the dial-a-joke service as illegal, it's confusing it with his blue-box antics, which occurred around the same time. According to the following article (a fun read), the blue box preceded dial-a-joke; he got the inspiration for the service from a dial-a-joke line in New York that he called while demoing blue boxes to potential customers: http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/the_merry_pranksters_of_microcomputi…

I think they used to sneak into the Stanford technical library to read tech bulletins. Which lead to the blue box. https://woz.org/blue-box/

Isn't Woz of Polish origin? http://www.woz.org/letters/about-your-last-name/ It's customary for us here in EU to grant citizenship/titles/university degrees to various important people who have contributed to a specific field. Some countries do it out of recognition others for country/political gains, but it doesn't hurt to have a collection of passports :-)

>> Steve Wozniak aka “The Woz” http://www.woz.org/about/ https://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+woz%22+site%3Awoz.org

AppleSoft (MS) BASIC came out very early in Apple II lifecycle, and prior to that there would have been no reason to call the original BASIC anything other than BASIC. Afterwards, of course, all the documentation and commands were updated. Woz originally called it "Game BASIC", some history at this page: http://woz.org/letters/apple-basic/

I was thinking that too, but I think to remember that they wrote some apps with it. Educational stuff, etc. Woz mentions some apps: http://www.woz.org/letters/apple-basic

Steve Jobs probably didn't "know" programming. http://www.woz.org/letters/does-steve-jobs-know-how-code

I'm guessing the submission dates are hidden because they're incorrect. Here's another one[0] that says it was posted in 2011, but there's an ed mark saying that "at this time" meant "pre-2000." Edit: It's on the wayback machine since at least August of 2000.[1] [0]. http://www.woz.org/letters/relationship-steve-jobs [1]. http://web.archive.org/web/20000817233800/http://www.woz.org/letters/g…

http://www.woz.org/letters/does-steve-jobs-know-how-code "Steve didn't ever code. He wasn't an engineer and he didn't do any original design, but he was technical enough to alter and change and add to other designs." -Woz

I'm disappointed in that unlike The Social Network, which had no other film as a reference to compare to, this film already has Pirates of Silicon Valley as a precedent. While Jobs didn't care for the film, Woz thought: "The personalities and incidents are accurate in the sense that they all occurred but they are often with the wrong parties (Bill Fernandez, Apple employee #4, was with me and the computer that burned up in 1970) and at the wrong dates (when John Sculley joined, he had to redirect attention from the Apple III,not the Mac, to the Apple II) and places (Homebrew Computer Club was at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) ... the personalities were very accurately portrayed." (http://www.woz.org/taxonomy/term/2)

Woz is still nominally a regular Apple employee - they pay him a very small paycheck so he can keep the perks of "working for Apple" but he doesn't have any assigned duties. He's mostly a goodwill ambassador. "I never resigned from Apple, and I still receive a small paycheck because I want to be an employee forever." source: http://www.woz.org/letters/general/53.html

If you read Steve Wozniak's book "iWoz", he talks about how Steve Jobs got him to do some hardware work (chip minimization) for Atari and lied about how much money Atari actually paid him. http://www.woz.org/letters/general/91.html

According to Woz, Jobs was concerned about the progress he was making on FP BASIC: "Steve Jobs got concerned that I wasn't making enough progress. He even accused me of slacking and coming in at 10 AM in one staff meeting, but I pointed out that I'd been laying out our floppy PC Card [...] and that I'd been leaving at 4 AM every morning, long after even the Houston brothers, Dick and Cliff, had left. " http://www.woz.org/letters/general/03.html

"Welcome to a free exchange of information, the way it always should be." http://woz.org/friends/

Quoting Steve Wozniak's description of Jobs' job back when he worked for Atari: "... Steve would examine their design and make changes, like adding sounds, etc. It's like modifying a program to do different things, just barely a step under designing them yourself, and a step that all design engineers go through." http://www.woz.org/letters/general/91.html If that gives you any sense.

He also carries large numbers of special $2 bills with him. http://www.woz.org/letters/general/78.html