Actually if you read any books they will credit him with inventing the modern PC as we know it with a monitor and keyboard. Before this they were just boxes with blinking lights that didn't mean much to the common person, whereas Woz invented something that was usable to most common people. So yea if you consider feeding tape into an Altair a good PC then I guess there were some PC's around before Woz.
Woz is a twit, for sure. Everytime Apple makes news, Woz is there commenting on it like he had anything to do with Apple's success in the last decade. Pretty much the Mac he helped invent is completely gone, both software and hardware wise, now replaced with an OS based on Steve Job's NeXT and BSD, and the Mac is now off the shelf PC components in a fancy form factor. His ego surpasses Steve Jobs by infinite amounts, at least Steve Job's has a reason to be arrogant, he's actually making innovative technology and getting rich off of it, what has Woz done lately besides cash in his Apple dividends and leach off their success?
"Its sad to build a company and let a dumbass manage and destroy it."Steve Jobs a 'dumbass' that 'destroyed Apple'. Are you out of your mind? Steve Jobs bring Apple back to business. He SAVED Apple. Woz never was an 'enterprise guy' he was more like the hacker behind the success, and that was years ago....
firehedJul 5, 2007
5 is a good day.Of course, they're only starting to bug me now because I already bought mine.
gojedaJul 5, 2007
I like Woz, but he "invented the PC"? On what f-ing planet?BURIED for his inaccurate book title.
jmo14Jul 5, 2007
Actually if you read any books they will credit him with inventing the modern PC as we know it with a monitor and keyboard. Before this they were just boxes with blinking lights that didn't mean much to the common person, whereas Woz invented something that was usable to most common people. So yea if you consider feeding tape into an Altair a good PC then I guess there were some PC's around before Woz.
topher06Jul 5, 2007
Woz is a twit, for sure. Everytime Apple makes news, Woz is there commenting on it like he had anything to do with Apple's success in the last decade. Pretty much the Mac he helped invent is completely gone, both software and hardware wise, now replaced with an OS based on Steve Job's NeXT and BSD, and the Mac is now off the shelf PC components in a fancy form factor. His ego surpasses Steve Jobs by infinite amounts, at least Steve Job's has a reason to be arrogant, he's actually making innovative technology and getting rich off of it, what has Woz done lately besides cash in his Apple dividends and leach off their success?
mentor972Jul 5, 2007
I agree. He WAS offered one, but refused.
Closed AccountJul 5, 2007
"Its sad to build a company and let a dumbass manage and destroy it."Steve Jobs a 'dumbass' that 'destroyed Apple'. Are you out of your mind? Steve Jobs bring Apple back to business. He SAVED Apple. Woz never was an 'enterprise guy' he was more like the hacker behind the success, and that was years ago....