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They were two guys named Steve, so Steve Jobs was called Steve and Steve Wozniak went by Woz. At 25, Wozniak was the technical brains. Jobs, 21, was the dreamer with a knack for getting others to dream along with him. They had gone to the same high school, and in the hazy years after graduation --both were college dropouts--a shared interest in electronics brought them together. Jobs didn't yet have his own place, so when their formal partnership began, the decision was made in a bedroom at his parents' ranch house in Los Altos, Calif...
Most computers in 1976 were room-size machines with Defense Department--size price tags, but Wozniak had been tinkering with a new design, and his computer was different. It wasn't much to look at--just a bunch of chips screwed to a piece of plywood--but it was small, cheap and easy to use, and Jobs had noticed the stir it caused when they took it to a local computer club. "He said, 'We'll make it for 20 bucks, sell it for 40 bucks!'" Wozniak remembers. "I kind of didn't think we'd do it." Jobs came...
...They’re moving in the right direction,” said Krzysztof P. Wozniak ’05, “but very slowly...
...Wozniak and several other students said HUDS is doing a good job of being responsive to students. But they cited ongoing complaints, including sub-par fare on Fridays and lunch foods reappearing at dinner...
...machine this elegant ought to have come from the R.-and-D. wing of a Honeywell or a John Deere or an IBM. Instead, it sprang from the imagination of a team of local inventors who might be among the most important industrial visionaries since Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak first took to their workbenches. While the machine the West Lebanon inventors are giving the world is not quite the personal computer, it could become to 21st century manufacturers what the cotton gin was to the farmer or the loom to the miller. "If these guys have the materials...