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My favorite quote from Woz's reply is this: "I awoke one night in Quito, Ecuador, this year and came up with a way to save a chip or two from the Apple II, and
by jaysonelliot 12y ago
My favorite quote from Woz's reply is this:
"I awoke one night in Quito, Ecuador, this year and came up with a way to save a chip or two from the Apple II, and a trivial way to have the 2 grays of the Apple II be different (light gray and dark gray) but it’s 38 years too late."
This is how you know you love your work. When you're still thinking of new things you can optimize, even four decades later.
- jgrahamc 12y agoI would buy Woz's improved Apple ][ if he started selling them.
- shawn-butler 12y agoHow much would you be willing to pay?
- jgrahamc 12y ago£50?
- CamperBob2 12y ago"Shut up and take my $666!"
- yitchelle 12y agoWhat would you do with it?
- rbanffy 12y agoIt would be interesting to build an Apple IV, following on with the ///, removing every constraint on ][ compatibility and making it //c compatible. The IIgs, while impressive, was actually a brand new 16-bit computer with a //c built in.
- melling 12y agoWhy is that cool? There's no doubt that Woz brilliant. However, I wish he had a second act. That he would come out with some sort of cool wearable or something else. Steve Jobs kept trying to invent the next big thing. Apple II, Macintosh, NeXT, iPod, iPhone. For some reason, engineers often don't think like this
- twic 12y agoOne of the things i admire about Woz is that he had the self-awareness not to lust after a second act. He has neither the insecurity to need to do it, nor the arrogance to think that he could do it. He gave the world a superb, decisive work of engineering, then left the stage to other performers while he went to teach future generations.
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- melling 12y agoI wouldn't call wanting a second act ego. It's about contributing and working on interesting problems. Elon, for example, made some money on PayPal but that's not what he really wanted to do. Once you become successful it opens doors. The guys at Google didn't want to be an advertising company, they probably want to just work on Google X all day. Anyway, the Woz already made a dent in the universe. He's certainly entitled to relax if that's what he so chooses.
- CPAhem 12y agoI admire his humbleness, and his admission of how lucky they were.
- gohrt 12y agoHe tried: http://www.geek.com/mobile/steve-wozniaks-startup-handheld-company-548657/ http://www.geek.com/mobile/steve-wozniaks-startup-handheld-c...
- __david__ 12y ago> However, I wish he had a second act. Well, he did invent the universal remote...
- rbanffy 12y agoIndeed. If he describes the two grays thing in more detail, someone could implement it in MESS at least. Woz: are you reading this?
- emhart 12y agoAuthor actually followed up with Woz's reply to that & the author's own experiments to make it happen: http://www.willegal.net/blog/?p=6023&cpage=1#comment-4850 http://www.willegal.net/blog/?p=6023&cpage=1#comment-4850