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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

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“‘The Woz’ built the first [personal computer]―by hand, by himself.”―USA Today

Before slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange vending machines, with cryptic switches and pages of encoded output. But in 1977 Steve Wozniak revolutionized the computer industry with his invention of the first personal computer. As the sole inventor of the Apple I and II computers, Wozniak has enjoyed wealth, fame, and the most coveted awards an engineer can receive, and he tells his story here for the first time.

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September 17, 2006
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0393061434
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978-0393061437
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Every engineer—and certainly every engineering student—should read this book….It is, in a nutshell, the engineer's manifesto. -- Guy Kawasaki, author of The Macintosh Way

Everyone should enjoy Woz's very personal and engaging story….What a wild ride! -- Ray Kurzweil, inventor and author of Singularity Is Near

Worth waiting for…adds intriguing new information to the history of the origins of the personal computer revolution. -- Alan Deutschman, author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

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Steve Wozniak has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and has received numerous awards, including the National Medal of Technology and the Heinz Award. He lives in California.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company (September 17, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 330 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393061434
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393061437
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 940L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches

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Gina Smith, PhD is the NYT bestselling author of Apple founder Steve Wozniak's biography, iWoz: From Geek to Cult Icon (WW Norton, 2006/2014). She is also the author of The Genomics Age (Amacom, 2006), a Barron's Book of the Year. She is the co-author of The Mountain Within: Leadership Lessons for Your Climb to the Top (McGraw, 2011), 101 Computer Answers You Need To Know (Simon & Schuster, 1995) and Toolbook: Programming for Non Programmers (1992). Smith, an award-winning journalist and former ABC News correspondent, resides in San Francisco.
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I feel 'cunning' would be a better description. Woz created designs that made the most ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2018

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The genius of Steve Wozniak is part of computing folklore, albeit based on a handful of designs. Personally, I feel 'cunning' would be a better description. Woz created designs that made the most of limited hardware, that performed dazzling tricks. But often the designs were impossible to expand or develop further. They were like breathtaking stunts of digital design. But the label 'genius' has stuck.

Which is why it's so disappointing that Woz spends so much time telling you what a genius he is. If you thought Jobs had an inflated ego, you might need to recalibrate. Practically every paragraph seems to be there purely to insist on Woz's brilliance. And this alleged genius clearly doesn't extend to writing. The story reads like the verbatim transcription of hyperactive eight year-old who has been slipped a strong coffee. Significant details and stories are drowned in a sea of banal anecdotes told in language a normal eight year-old would find drearily infantile.

I'm trying to finish this book because it's a subject that deeply interests me. But I find I can bear only a few pages at a time before I need to read something grown-up.

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D. S. Bierly

Excruciating disaster of a book

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019

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This book is so short it should have taken a couple hours to read, but I couldn't bear more than about 10 minutes of it's simple minded, error-filled, repetitive banality at a time so it took a couple weeks. I can't fully blame Woz for this (other than hiring Gina Smith), I can only imagine that he simply gave one or more interviews with the author in the expectation that she would turn that conversation into a book. Instead, it reads as a mildly (and very poorly) edited interview, rambling from topic to topic without much coherence at all. Facts are repeated over and over between adjacent pages or even paragraphs. This book is at best written at an 8th grade level, or perhaps akin to a sharp 5th grader. Who does she think the audience is here? My guess is at least 85% of the readers are engineers, for whom the almost complete lack of any technical depth--much less accuracy--is excruciating to bear. For the remaining 15% curious but non-technical readers, the book is a bore, as most of the things people want to hear about are missing or glossed over, in exchange for topics Woz himself likely wanted to get out of his system. This is where Gina Smith should have come in and helped frame this story into a book that scores highly for all readers, written for adults, and with accurate and more substantial technical depth to enlighten and satisfy the likely majority technical audience.

Clearly, Gina Smith has no clue about technology, given the frequent errors and generalizations that entirely miss the point of what Woz is talking about, she just puts it into the book without understanding the content, or that it is wrong. But since she is supposedly an author and journalist, there is simply no excuse for the writing style, the typos, the technical mistakes, and the completely lack of editorial improvement over Woz's casual conversational story. I can only imagine that, much like the repeating saga of Woz's story of inability to say no when people pressured him, he simply gave this story to Gina Smith without proper diligence.

I am so disappointed. I am a huge fan of the story of Woz and early Apple and the significance of this story to not only the history of computer design, but to the American Way of innovation and capitalism itself. This even includes Steve Jobs--whatever you think of him--who was the yang to Woz's yin. Apple and perhaps the evolution of computers as we know them could not have happened without the contributions of both of these guys, they among are my heroes.

My conclusion is that--as with the horrific writing that destroyed our beloved Game of Thrones saga--we should all demand a redo of this book! Woz, your story--with greater depth of both narrative and your technical innovations--deserves, even must, be told properly. This includes the more detailed story of you and Steve Jobs, upon which you walked on eggshells in this book. I say give it another go, but this time take the time to find a writer to work with that can actually understand what you are saying, and can help you craft this into a real book that people will treasure for generations.

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Great Story - Worth Reading

Reviewed in the United States on 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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P. Holmes

From tinkering kid to genius millionaire

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2018

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I had no idea about Steve Wozniack. I thought he was out of the industry. Boy, was I wrong. He is still a leader in his industry and a very amazing person. This was a very entertaining and educational book. I feel that all 9 to 11 year olds could learn something from this and it should be required reading in 5th grade. At least 6th grade. Any parent of a child interested in gadgets should also read this book. It made me wish I had had his drive to keep on going through trials I had tried when I was a kid. This man is a genius and was as a child. It started with him being allowed to make strange inventions at home. Parents: lighten up. Let your kid experiment on your old equipment. .

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Whitney Johnson

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

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2017

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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. iWoz is a stimulating peek into the human history behind the rise of an iconic, globally monolithic corporation. Wozniak exemplifies genuine innovation, with a vision to not only invent new technologies, but to make technology accessible and user-friendly—put simply, to improve people’s lives. His work is not that of an engineer only, but of an artist—a master, whose great creations have changed the world.

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sue banks

A very good account of his life.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 9, 2020

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This autobiography gives him a chance to put the record straight and describe his amazing ideas and huge persistence in creating Apple 2, the first popular home computer. He could be described as a genius I believe because he took technology to a new level and created something new in human achievement. However without Steve Jobs and his obsessive drive to make money, the Apple company would not have existed .

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2014

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I thought this book was very poorly written as though he had gone down the pub and was talking to his friends. The style is very colloquial and really there is no need for all the ums and ers of everyday speech. 'Man I drove....''Man it was so frustrating...' 'I was shaking with goosebumps and everything....'
I imagine the aim was for him to appear as just 'a regular guy' but he came across as a bit of a prat. I found the style irritating and frustrating. The content I found difficult as well. Just too much of 'the great I am.' He shows himself to be a rather unpleasant person with his 'pranks' which seemed to be there to show what a clever person he is but just shows him as unkind and thoughtless.
I did my best with this book but in the end I thought 'I've got better things to do.'
He should have employed a good editor.

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steveb_online

Very disappointing - an opportunity missed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 24, 2016

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I was very disappointed by this book. The best thing about it was the title. I was really looking forward to hearing more about Woz as he is clearly a very clever man who made a terrific and inspired contribution to the personal computer. I knew little about him other than as "the other guy" in the Apple story and his "hacker" roots. Being of similar age, and having done my share of meddling with computers and programming in that period, I was keen to relive some of the old history. However, this book is hopelessly self-absorbed, poorly balanced, repetitive and egotistical. Where was the editor/coauthor? Asleep? I will refrain from being overly explicit in my review but it is rare indeed that I give up on a bio on someone so influential. It simply annoyed me. It does little to elucidate the relationship with Jobs but simply claims (over and over again) what a genius iWos.

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Scott Burr

iWoz

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 10, 2017

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Wow! Just finished reading this, what a great insight into the kind of person and engineer Woz is, I absolutely loved every bit of it. What a nice guy. Its pretty obvious most of it is written by him as well, which is nice. The book reveals Woz as a person, an engineer and his time at and before apple, and beyond. He gets quite deep into engineering, I'm an electronic design engineer for a living and found the level of depth very interesting. All in all a great book, well done and thanks Woz!

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M Robinson

Excellent read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2018

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Enjoyed the book. Nice to hear the truth about the early days of Apple.

Steve Jobs gets most of the attention but me being a programmer, I was always more interested in Woz's story.

Very interesting book.

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