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The most telling thing to me about Woz's personality was this walkthrough at the CHM. Note the section about the homebrew scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
by WorldPeas 1y ago
The most telling thing to me about Woz's personality was this walkthrough at the CHM. Note the section about the homebrew scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB8Hxnb52o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB8Hxnb52o
- djmips 1y agoThanks - a very good video! The quick anecdote of how he talks about in his teens / high school he stumbled over the PDP-8 small computer handbook which lead him to sneaking into the Stanford linear accelerator libary on a slow Sunday with his friend and reading through their prized selection of industry computer magazines, filling out the trade cards and getting back manuals for minicomputers which often had very detailed information about practical computer architecture - where he would then shut himself in a room and design on paper his own computers in a game to make them to use less and less chips. He competed with himself. This is a key detail in how he was self taught that I'd never heard before! https://youtu.be/hsB8Hxnb52o?t=1083 https://youtu.be/hsB8Hxnb52o?t=1083 Small Computer Handbook https://www.grc.com/pdp-8/docs/PDP-8_Small_Computer_Handbook_1972.pdf https://www.grc.com/pdp-8/docs/PDP-8_Small_Computer_Handbook...
- WorldPeas 1y agoanother thing I heard but never thought of that was in the video, Woz said he based the Apple I off a terminal! In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense. > He was designing a terminal to be used with DARPANet, the predecessor to the internet. He wanted an inexpensive way to use a keyboard and TV as the display for use as a computer terminal. https://historysanjose.org/how-we-restored-our-apple-1-to-working-condition/ https://historysanjose.org/how-we-restored-our-apple-1-to-wo... I guess the IPhone was walking his path after all (as heretical as it may sound)