Submitted by Steve Wozniak did a talk at the Computer Museum on January 12th 2006 and it is now on Google video. “Woz serves up Apple Computer history in his own unique way. Steve will describe a sequence for providing a rational understanding of many of the innovations leading to early Apple designs. He’ll look at early company structure, the personalities that influenced him, and personalities within the company. In addition, he’ll discuss the reasons he wants to be an engineer for life but not a CEO. Don’t miss this sure to be entertaining, informative, and very personal view.”
The video is over an hour and half long, so I wasn’t too keen on seeing it in google’s flash window. Attempting to download it resulted in being asked to download google’s video player.
No thanks.
Here are links directly from the Computer History Museum:
[WMV — HI — 147.7 MB] http://www.computerhistory.org/archive/woz200k.wmv
[WMV — LO — 24.2 MB] http://www.computerhistory.org/archive/woz56k.wmv
The videos are the same as that on google, but for some reason it’s listed as a talk in 2002 in the Comp. Hist. Museum web page. Hmmm.
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/lecture_table.shtml
Also: if you want to skip the mandatory intro bits, announcements of further lectures, calls for funds and volunteer help and housekeeping announcements, skip to 7:20 where the introduction of Wozniak begins (with a couple of interesting anecdotes).
It’s definitely worth watching! The whole history of how Wozniak got started on Apple, the Apple II, the Apple III, his design principles, and lots of anecdotes.
In the beginning he seems nervous, and blurts out his text, but after half an hour he really gets into story telling mode.
http://vp.video.google.com/videodownload?version=0&secureurl=qQAAAK…
I watched the video and was amazed by Woz.
Not only was it interesting, from a historical perspective, but Woz is truly a very engaging stage persona.
Quite worth watching!
Well worth the download, It’s all about what lead up to the creation of Apple and the Apple 1 / 2.
Very, very interesting.
Note: I couldn’t play the 56K version linked above on my Mac.