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After pirates of silicon valley had aired, he contacted noah wyle and told him that while he hated both the film and the screenplay, he liked wyles performance, noting you do look like me. August 11, 1950 is the cofounder of apple computer and is credited with being the main designer of the first apples. A rare video of steve wozniak from 1984 has surfaced where he talks about the beginnings of apple, the dynamic and focuses of both steve jobs and himself in building computers, and how they started the apple enterprise in the mid70s in a garage. The woz wonderbook 1977 digibarn computer museum steve wozniak, apple computer inc. In 1971 the two launched blue box, a device for long distance free phone calls. Sold by camalion enterprises and ships from amazon fulfillment. It isnt crafted out much, and has several raw edges, but they show clearly what type of a person steve wozniak is. Steve wozniak talking about the thennew macintosh and lots of other apple and early computing lore when he visited the cleveland apple club back in 1984. Spanning the years 19711997 and based on paul freiberger and michael swaines 1984 book fire in the valley.
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