pncnmnp a year ago

I recently stumbled upon a blog post by Mike Birken where he describes a 2006 meeting with Steve Wozniak at a Barnes & Noble. (https://meatfighter.com/woz/)

Apparently, Wozniak had played a prank in the 70s where he created a fake advertisement for Zaltair, a fictitious successor to the MITS Altair computer built around the Zilog Z80 instead of the Intel 8080. He copied some of the worst ads he could find for wording and distributed the brochures at the West Coast Computer Faire. Birken recreated the brochure and was able to get Wozniak to sign it. Interestingly, Wozniak was carrying laser-cut stainless-steel business cards, which he handed out at the Barnes & Noble event.

pkdpic a year ago

After reading three of these I decided to just start listening to the audiobook of iWoz. Free on my library app. Very cool description of his excellently nerdy childhood. Especially if you're a parent his dad relationship seems like solid gold. Anyway so far so good :thumbs-up:

nu11ptr a year ago

Cool site, but I do wish these were date stamped. Sometimes you can get an idea when they were sent based on content, but other times it is a bit hard to know.

  • revskill a year ago

    ChatGPT can guess based on writing style ?

    • Chinjut a year ago

      ChatGPT is not some magic oracle that uncovers correct answers to all questions. I see little reason to imagine ChatGPT being useful here at all.

      • jxramos a year ago

        ChatGPT will reach omniscience once every human on the planet submits to it a 1000 word biography, specifically a paragraph on their choice drink at Starbucks.

seizethecheese a year ago

I’m seeing Woz content everywhere. Does he have a book coming out or something?

  • ffhhj a year ago

    The Woz Files, where he presents different old school computer pranks and hacks. A skinny guy without shoes shows up to help in a few episodes. I'd totally watch that.

  • bink a year ago

    I hope so. I found his autobiography a really tough read. I'd love to read something a little more balanced.

    • coopsmoss a year ago

      Tough because of the subject matter or the writing? Would you recommend it?

    • NovaPenguin a year ago

      Gina Smith who wrote most iWoz said that on the first day sitting down with Woz it was at a restaurant. Woz just said "Good luck Gina. This is the fifth time I have tried to get this book done".

      Gina just said, Woz is wonderful but it is difficult to make his stories into anything really engaging at times.

jayp1418 a year ago

What happened to his crypto currency project?

  • simonebrunozzi a year ago

    I was sad that he endorsed that project. I don't have news, but I would guess it went nowhere.

    • EGreg a year ago

      Why was it sad? What did the project do?

      • NikolaNovak a year ago

        It was a Crypto project.

        (for many people, a celebrity enforcing a random vanity blockchain spinoff is just an automatic No)

  • kris_wayton a year ago

    The site is here: https://efforce.io/team

    • phronesis a year ago

      > Take part into meaningful energy efficiency projects made to help virtuous companies have less impact on energy consumption and the environment.

      This paragraph near the top of the home page is so poorly written I’d immediately assume it to be a scam if Woz weren’t involved.

    • fullsend a year ago

      The more you look at this “team” section the weirder it gets.

dorfsmay a year ago

Repeating my comment from another thread:

I can't help but wonder if the lack of https on woz.org is intentional or simply overlooked.

eklavyaa a year ago

Will be awesome if people who wrote the emails are here and can introduce themselves.