Word: wozniak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selling can quickly take over markets. Some of the most important breakthroughs in recent years in such fields as semiconductors and bioengineering have been made by smaller companies. At the same time, large firms risk losing prized employees who have caught the entrepreneurial fever. In 1975 Stephen Wozniak, then a 25-year-old designer at Hewlett-Packard, went to his boss with the idea of a microcomputer that could be hooked up to a home television set. The firm was not interested. Wozniak therefore started his own company with Steven Jobs, a friend working at Atari. The company: Apple Computer...
Hewlett-Packard. Though it failed to recognize the potential of Wozniak's proposal for a personal computer, Hewlett-Packard is highly regarded in Silicon Valley for fostering innovation. In 1982 Engineer Charles House was given a medal for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering duty." He had ignored an order from Founder David Packard to stop working on a type of high-quality video monitor. Despite the rebuke, House pressed ahead and succeeded in developing the monitor, which has been used to track NASA's manned moon landings and also in heart transplants. Although there were...
...Whole Earth Software Catalog. Brand's idea was to bring together, for the first time, people from several generations of hackers, and his guests included some of the brightest stars in computing: Ted Nelson, author of Computer Lib, a widely read handbook from the mid-1970s; Stephen Wozniak, who built the original Apple computer; Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1; Richard Greenblatt, who developed the LISP machines used in artificial-intelligence research; and Burrell Smith, a one time Apple repairman who went on to build the Macintosh computer...
...industry has matured, so have the Stephen Wozniak pioneers who helped build it. Most of the high priests of hacking have long ago grown out of the pranksterism associated with their name, and many feel it is time they set an example for the next generation of computer fans. "It's one thing for a high school kid to show off how he can dial the phone for free," says Brian Harvey, an M.I.T. hacker turned high school teacher. "It's quite another for an adult to go around encouraging schoolkids to steal...
...computers have hit even mighty IBM. When its PCjr, which sells for $669 and $1,269 in different models, was first marketed in January, analysts forecast that 500,000 would be sold this year. But First Boston's Edelson says results will be less than half that. Mark Wozniak, co-owner of a Sunnyvale, Calif., computer store and brother of Apple Co-Founder Stephen Wozniak, no longer even stocks the PCjr. Says he: "It was too much heartache." Last week, in an effort to spur sales and make the PCjr more compet-/0 itive, IBM cut its prices...