![]() When I met Steve Wozniak, back in 1989, I asked him for my first celebrity interview and later asked him for some better equipment for our lab. I liked playing the games, other people liked learning to code them.Īt West Valley Community College, the journalism instructor there had somehow gotten the budget to buy a $5,000 Laser Printer and a few early Macintosh’s to run the newspaper. Dads like mine would buy the latest games and one of the members of the club was so adept at hacking that he’d crack the copy protection codes, and put a copy in the school’s library. I joined the computer club there, where we, um, ran a software piracy operation. I learned later from Wozniak that Apple had run out of manufacturing capabilities, since Apple IIs were selling so well, and had hired Hildy Licht, who hired housewives around the valley to help build them.Īt Prospect High School they had a brand new Apple II-based lab. I was paid $1 per board, if I remember right, and it took me a long time to do one properly. When I was 13-14 I earned my allowance by helping my mom stuff Apple II motherboards. ![]() It hit me that this was a different kind of company, very different from Tandem, which I also got a tour of (that company is now gone) and HP, where I worked a summer job on a wave soldiering machine.Īpple was part of my life at every turn. A guy gave me a tour, I have no idea who he was, but I still remember two things 34 years later: the piano and the sign “loose lips sink ships.” I got some posters, which are long gone, of Apple’s first multi-colored logo. That year, enamored as I was with this new device that my school had purchased (my dad bought an even better model a few months later) I got the courage to go into Apple’s first building (back then it was only one building, smaller than many of the startups I visit today) and ask for a tour. ![]()
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