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From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
W. W. Norton
October 2006
On Sale: September 25, 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 0393061434
EAN: 9780393061437
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and
steps forward to tell his story for the first
time.
Before 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. They
had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded
output. 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.
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.
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. 16
pages of illustrations.
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