I recently stumbled upon a blog post by Mike Birken where he describes a 2006 meeting with Steve Wozniak at a Barnes & Noble. (https://meatfighter.com/woz/)
Apparently, Wozniak had played a prank in the 70s where he created a fake advertisement for Zaltair, a fictitious successor to the MITS Altair computer built around the Zilog Z80 instead of the Intel 8080. He copied some of the worst ads he could find for wording and distributed the brochures at the West Coast Computer Faire. Birken recreated the brochure and was able to get Wozniak to sign it. Interestingly, Wozniak was carrying laser-cut stainless-steel business cards, which he handed out at the Barnes & Noble event.
After reading three of these I decided to just start listening to the audiobook of iWoz. Free on my library app. Very cool description of his excellently nerdy childhood. Especially if you're a parent his dad relationship seems like solid gold. Anyway so far so good :thumbs-up:
Cool site, but I do wish these were date stamped. Sometimes you can get an idea when they were sent based on content, but other times it is a bit hard to know.
ChatGPT will reach omniscience once every human on the planet submits to it a 1000 word biography, specifically a paragraph on their choice drink at Starbucks.
The Woz Files, where he presents different old school computer pranks and hacks. A skinny guy without shoes shows up to help in a few episodes. I'd totally watch that.
Gina Smith who wrote most iWoz said that on the first day sitting down with Woz it was at a restaurant. Woz just said "Good luck Gina. This is the fifth time I have tried to get this book done".
Gina just said, Woz is wonderful but it is difficult to make his stories into anything really engaging at times.
I know some bloggers who intentionally avoid https because it's "bloat". It requires lots of additional code compared to http, TLS handshake consumes lots of resources and decrease max RPS, etc. You can even find some arguments in previous HN posts.
Apparently, Wozniak had played a prank in the 70s where he created a fake advertisement for Zaltair, a fictitious successor to the MITS Altair computer built around the Zilog Z80 instead of the Intel 8080. He copied some of the worst ads he could find for wording and distributed the brochures at the West Coast Computer Faire. Birken recreated the brochure and was able to get Wozniak to sign it. Interestingly, Wozniak was carrying laser-cut stainless-steel business cards, which he handed out at the Barnes & Noble event.