The “neatest” thing he was able to do with it was build a house-to-house intercom system, thus becoming a central member of a group of like-minded neighborhood buddies he calls the “Electronics Kids.” That hobby kit was the start of a long, immersive, world-changing, paradigm-shifting career as a bona fide computer geek. “It had all these great switches and wires and lights,” he writes. 1960, where fourth-grader Steve finds an electronics hobby kit from his parents. The tale of Woz’s rise to supergeekdom starts in Sunnyvale, California, under the Wozniak family Christmas tree ca. And with the exception of a few lengthy technical tutorials (must we really be taught the difference between SRAM and DRAM?), that rambling story is indeed fascinating, even gripping in its own odd way. Indeed, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon-How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It reads like a cross-country trip in the story seat, an endless bedtime story. Whoever got to sit there was treated to a story that Wozniak, or “Woz,” would make up while driving. In his new memoir, Steve Wozniak, the cofounder with Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, describes the “story seat,” the name he gave the passenger seat of the family car when his children were small.
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