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iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It Hardcover – September 17, 2006

by Steve Wozniak (Author),‎ Gina Smith (Author)

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Hardcover: 330 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (September 17, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393061434
ISBN-13: 978-0393061437
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches
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Average Customer Review: 410 customer reviews
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Robea

Great Story - Worth Reading

September 8, 2014

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This was a much better book than I expected - but then again I am an engineer of the same age as Steve Jobs, went to the same elementary school as Steve Wozniak (four years later) and grew up in the same Cherry Hill West subdivision of Sunnyvale, CA. that both of them lived in. So I was perhaps better able to relate to some of the things that the book talked about - I even had the same chemistry teacher, Dr. Hubbs, at De Anza College who is mentioned in the book. It brought back a lot of memories of that time and place in 1960's Silicon Valley life.
I found it appropriately technical but not too geeky. Also very honest and straight forward. In my opinion, an even better book than the biography of Steve Jobs by Walther Isaacson - which is also worth reading but a more definitive work.
Steve Wozniak focuses most of the book on his childhood, youth and early adult life & relationship with Steve Jobs up to the time when Apple Computers gets up and rolling. That story alone would have made the book worth reading.
After that he skips a lot of detail and talks more about his person life, marriages and things he did after his full time involvement with Apple. When you are all done you come away feeling like you know the person Steve Wozniak.
You also realize that without Steve Jobs, he would have just spent his life being a super-geek company man making a mid-six figure salary working for Hewlett Packard. And without Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs would have probably become a B-list, new age cult leader living somewhere in Santa Cruz.

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George L. Adleman

I was in the time but never met Woz.

September 21, 2014

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I am an engineer and lived through the same time. I even worked for HP for 25 years.
I binge read this book and couldn't put it down because i was connected to the time, the vocation and had some identification and some differences. It was a very personal read.

The book had a strange voice to it. A kind of childish repeating - even literally repeating quality.
The authors concern seems to need to explain in simpler terms some of the technical issues.
I actually would have liked to see the details as I could probably understand them. Perhaps an appendix.

All in all I liked the book and the person and hope some day to meet Woz as I think we share some similarities and differences.

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Greg

Woz, the real Man Behind Apple and It's values

August 4, 2011

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Woz tells the story of his whole life with such candor and believability. You get to know him based on his stories and the way tells them (From the heart). I can honestly say I have a good feeling for who he is as a person, after reading his book.

This is the guy behind Apple, he is the genius behind the Apple and the Apple II. These products were the first that set the trend for Apple's easy-to-use, customer friendly products. Without him, there is no Apple. Period.

Woz doesn't gossip much about Jobs, he does talk about their friendship and business dealings. Woz really stepped back more or less after the Apple II. He truly believed that creating personal computers was an art as much a science. Having taken a digital electronics course, I have some appreciation for what his skills were and he is an incredible man. He had some serious talent for sure. He talks about his whole life, his dealings with Apple are only a part of that. Much of his previous work certainly built up to that and you can see him build up to it. His life story is awesome, this book is a page turner and easy to read.

If you like Apple, autobiographies, little bit of counter-culture, electronics or genuine guy you will love this book.

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Geoff Puterbaugh

A fascinating trip down Memory Lane

November 1, 2011

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I read this book from a somewhat different perspective (although it is shared by millions). I wound up in Sunnyvale in 1978, in the heart of the Silicon Valley at the beginning of the Personal Computer Revolution. I hung out at Computerland of Los Altos and played with the early Cromemcos etc. It was an extremely exciting time and, in retrospect, I was extremely lucky to have lived through it all.

In those days, Jobs and Wozniak were household names. Everyone was amazed at what they had done. I took an early Apple II running UCSD Pascal into work at Control Data (fast dinosaurs), and the editor impressed people so much that CDC introduced its own "full-screen editor" very quickly. When I was assigned to explain the internal workings of our Sort / Merge product, it was extremely easy to look up the relevant algorithms in Knuth and translate them to Pascal --- and print out traces which enabled everyone to grasp the inner details of a tournament sort. It is no exaggeration to say that an Apple II was, in many respects, quicker and easier to use than a CDC computer which cost millions of dollars.

Clearly, the world of computing was in for a total tranformation.

Steve Wozniak's book explains just how he did it. I was surprised to learn that his IQ measured over 200, and then I sort of kicked myself: "Well, what did you expect?" This is the man who designed the Apple I singlehandedly, and then surpassed himself by designing the completely different Apple II a few months later. He had the vision of a computer with a keyboard and a screen --- very new concepts when the hobbyist world was still dealing with punched cards and "blinken lights." Wozniak, acting alone, defined the new world of the personal computer simply by inventing it. He was a true American genius who is simply stating the truth about his amazing accomplishments --- including writing the original Integer Basic interpreter for the Apple machines.

A lot of people may wonder what Woz has to say about Steve Jobs, and I will report that Woz admired Jobs terrifically, especially when Jobs played the comeback kid and returned to an Apple that seemed to be losing direction.

There may be an underlying story in this book, which Woz does not clearly bring out, and it has to do with what may have been a classic case of burnout. This occurred after his stunning successes, and after he was worth $100 million, when he went to Hawaii and simply stopped working on engineering. He decided that there were plenty of engineers in the world, but his kids had just the one father, and he decided to devote much more time to his family. In fact, he became a teacher and really devoted the rest of his life to educating the next generation.

In fact, leaving aside his very short life of crime (selling illegal Blue Boxes) this seems to be the tale of a model citizen, and someone you might have enjoyed knowing --- if you could follow his thoughts.

A very enjoyable read, and a definite contribution to history.

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Tyler Hannon

Geek? More like GOAT.

Geek? More like GOAT. Steve Wozniak is freaking awesome.

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Howard Weisbart

Loved it but..,

Great book. Got to know Steve Wozniak like he was my friend Just got too technical a couple of times. Still well worth the read.

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Dale Leonard

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Loved the book. Really inspiring! I'm glad I read it and got to know the story from his point of view

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Whitney Johnson

Charming, down-to-earth, front-row seat

Who doesn’t want to know the inside story of Wozniak the Wizard? Charming, down-to-earth, entertaining and friendly—more adjectives available on demand.Read more

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Karen

An American Icon

A conversational read, it makes you feel like he is talking to you. Filled with humor, history and insight, this is a book you can read from cover to cover in one sitting.

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Thomas Andert

Excellent read on iWoz

What an interesting and insightful book about a leader in the computer industry. Understanding the insights and intrigues of a creative mind behind the Apple Computer story was...Read more

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Rachael Ranney

I found some of it fun to read

I found some of it fun to read. Except I've listened to Steve Jobs biography so many times, read it so many times, that it seemed to crossover too much.

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