Word: wozniak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fertile ground of the baby boomers' art-vs.-commerce conundrum. "Steve Jobs' garage is the starting point of an entire culture," Burke says. "It got going in the early '70s, when the campuses were being occupied by antiwar protesters, but these guys--Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Wozniak--were the ones who really overthrew the Establishment. And then they became everything the counterculture was against...
...Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak develop the Apple...
Steve Jobs was still running Apple Computer from his father's garage in Los Altos, Calif., in 1976 when he got his first call from Microsoft--offering to sell him a version of the BASIC computer language for the prototype Apple I. No thanks, Jobs said. His pal Steve Wozniak had already written a BASIC, and if they needed a better one, they could do it themselves over the weekend...
Never as hard-core as Wozniak (who actually built the Apple I and II) or even Gates, it was Jobs, nonetheless, who made the key decisions that shaped the company and the PC industry in its formative years: to name his computer after a fruit; to package it in a molded plastic case; to hire world-class p.r. and marketing firms; and, most incredibly, to drop everything to build the industry-incompatible but user-friendly Macintosh after visiting Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center and seeing its icons, its windows, its mouse. Jobs made us choose sides...
...year-old fan from Chicago who has seen 28 Dead shows: "Dave Matthews has a lot of talent, but he's still a rookie on the hippie countercultural scene." Deadheads have been eager to see the Other Ones, but in a melancholy sort of way. Says Paul Wozniak, a 35-year-old fan who has seen the Dead perform more than 300 times and attended a recent show by the Other Ones: "They can measure up musically, but it will never be what...