Tag: steve wozniak

An Interview with Apple-1PCB Designer Howard Cantin

Howard Cantin was the man behind the printed circuit boards for many of the early atari machines as well as the Apple01 computer.   Recently, Mike Willegal, creator of the Apple-1 Mimeo, sat down with Howard in a telephone interview to talk about what when into those days and his relationships with the heads of what was then Apple Computer as well as how things went with Nolan Bushnell of Atari As for the proverbial story about how Atari refused the…

Ron Wayne, Apple Co-Founder, Writes About Leaving Apple After 12 Days

Ron Wayne is probably the least well known Apple, Inc. Co-Founder of the three men who created the now behemoth company.   He had a 10% stake in the young company at it’s founding, however, he left the company, selling his stake for a total of $2300.   The media has reported that he lost potentially billions of dollars in his leaving, however, he does not see it that way.  According to Ron, “I didn’t lose out on billions of dollars. That’s…

Wonder what it was like starting Apple?

A clip on you tube fromt he Santa Clara Valley Historical Association has a snippet of Steve Jobs talking about what it took for he and Woz to start Apple.  The expression that stands out in the clip that is most striking is the bit about “we had literally nothing to lose.”  The video is embedded below and the part with Steve Jobs begins at 1:52 int he clip.   It is a very telling emotion about how he felt about…

Rebellious types built Apple — Would never happen in Singapore — Woz

Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, Inc. has said that a different thinking company like Apple could never have emerged in a group think country of Singapore. His recent interview with the BBC on BBC Radio exposes the ultimate question he has for Singapore: “Where are the creative people? Where are the great artists? Where are the great musicians? Where are the great writers?” Although education and infrastructure play a major role in the foundation of Singaporean society, The whole…

Bytes From The Apple — A Resurgence of the Apple-1

By Bill Martens When Steve Wozniak first created his Apple-1 computer, it was all hand wire wrapped and on breadboard.  No fancy automated electronic assembly was even thought of.  It was purely a labor and work of true love of the art form.  These hand built machines were mostly produced in early 1976 with the original production machines being produced in April 1976 by Steve Wozniak (http://www.woz.org) and Steve Jobs. The fact that only 175 of the original Apple-1 production…

Whither Apple?

DeWitt Robbeloth II Computing Volume 1 Number 1October / November 1985 The computer world was stunned in June when Apple Computer, Inc. announced, in effect, that cofounder and Chairman of the Board Steven Jobs had been unhorsed in a corporate joust with Apple’s President and Chief Executive Officer, John Sculley. Sculley convinced the Board of Directors to reorganize the company in a way that removed Jobs from his executive role as general manager of the Macintosh Division. The new “functional”…

Apple II Basic Structure

by Steve Wozniak Apple Computer, Inc.(Reprinted from Dr. Dobbs Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orhtodontia, Box E, Menlo Park, Ca. 94025, Issue No. 23) An understanding of the internal representation of a BASIC program is necessary in order to develop RENUMBER and APPEND algorithms. Fig. 1 illustrate s the significant pointers for a program in memory. Variable and symbol table assignment begins at the location whose address is contained in the pointer LOMEM ($4A and $4B where ‘$’ , stands…