' if you're a nerd or maybe the parent of a budding nerd, this is possibly essential reading. Yet, with all this, I am big fan of Steve Wozniak. For instance, Steve Jobs could always use his knowledge and insight of what sells to keep selling various stuff over decades, Steve Wozniak, with all the technical knowledge and brain power that was capable of reverse engineering display signals, writing OS, device drivers and games overnight, and yet that brain decided that the next big thing is going to be universal remote controllers?!! See what I mean? While it's great and it's what makes the world work, I feel that they are kinda time-bound, and expire quicker than other kinds of ideas / brains. This book also makes to think about the Engineering mindset. If it was up to this Steve, he would have been thrilled to build an Apple II, show it off a bunch of engineers, and continue making calculators for HP. However, there is not a single business bone in him, and it's equally fair to say Apple would have never happened if it wasn't for the other Steve. And it's clear Apple couldn't have happened without Wozniak. ' It's a good insight into Wozniaks' thinking process.

Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.it would be him! This is one of the best books I have ever read! I read this in 2009.' If I had a choice of a famous person I would love to meet one day. I was completely rooting for him on Dancing With The Stars and I voted for him. He is a true genius, but is also a common man who just loves to have fun.

He being Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple Computer Inc. From the invention of the first personal computer to the rise of Apple as an industry giant, iWoz presents a no-holds-barred, rollicking, firsthand account of the humanist inventor who ignited the computer revolution. Wozniak's life-before and after Apple-is a 'home-brew' mix of brilliant discovery and adventure, as an engineer, a concert promoter, a fifth-grade teacher, a philanthropist, and an irrepressible prankster. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I, a widely affordable machine that anyone could understand and figure out how to use. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.īefore cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines.

IWoz by Steve Wozniak