Apple’s Steve Wozniak: Tinker, teacher, thinker, reacher
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shares his ideas about the future of computers with Distinguished Speakers Series subscribers. Photo by Deidre Davidson (Davidsonfoto.com) In 1976, Steve Wozniak told his Hewlett Packard boss that he had been coming in early to work on a design for a new home-computer. He was convinced the new computer would change the world. He wanted Hewlett Packard to build it. Steve Jobs, Wozniak’s young partner in several other, more modest computer products, including an illegal “blue box” for making free long distance calls, wanted him to quit Hewlett Packard. “Steve wasn’t an engineer,” Wozniak said of the more famous of the two Apple co-founders. “But he found ways to turn things I designed into money.” Wozniak had dropped out of Berkeley to join Hewlett Packard and was reluctant to leave, he told Distinguished Speaker Series subscribers during a talk two Sundays ago at the Redondo Performing Arts Center. “I just wanted to be known as a great engineer, and to spend the rest of my life working at Hewlett Packard. I didn’t want to start my own company. I was afraid of running things. I didn’t want enemies. I loved the designing side,” he said. Wozniak recalled…
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