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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/ http
by pncnmnp 4y 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/ 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.