Image appears to be from http://www.woz.org/art/index.html which does say "All these photos are free to use, just try to credit the photographer whenever possible or appropriate.". Exact photo appears to be http://www.woz.org/woz/art/images/PIC00003.jpg Megapixie 00:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I confirm this -- suggest that the phrase "courtesy woz.org" be added next to image on main page and the 'suggested for deletion' phrase be removed. Jkp1187 14:13, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Time and again some portions of my articles have been removed as "copyrighted"!!! Please do not do that again: I indeed pasted it ready-made; however, I pasted it from my own article (http://www.supermemo.com/articles/genius.htm#Steve%20Wozniak). Please feel free to expand upon this text, but I would appreciate if you would leave this note intact. One reason is that I would not like anyone ever think that I steal material from Wikipedia to write my own articles! I just thought this would be a nice contribution. -- Piotr Wozniak
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I also wonder about the relative timing and influence of Apple II vs. Altair; Commodore PET; Tandy; Heathkit; Atari 400/800; TI99; Sinclare; ... How was Woz's contribution unique compared to these others? Where was he first, and where did it matter? The fact that he was a garage hardware hacker is the most unique quality I can see, and the last unique contribution Apple attempted to make was Steve Jobs putting Multitasking and GUI features (Taken from PARC) in the Lisa. The MAC was a lame compromise.
--Jonathan--
I can share a little of my experience at the time: a few hobbyist-geeks (like me) had CP/M machines at home before the Apple II came out, and the TRS/80 and Commodore PET came out first, but it really was the Apple II that made the term "home computer" meaningful. I agree with Tim, though, that this was due no less to Jobs' marketing than Wozniak's technical genius, though some of that marketing involved selling Wozniak's personality. On the other hand, the Apple II was a technical marvel for being able to pack as much functionality as it had into a small single circuitboard with cheap parts, making it affordable for ordinary folks; Wozniak certainly deserves credit for that as well (the video system in particular was pure genius). Before the Apple II, the guy on your block with a computer was like that guy on your block with a ham radio--something of an oddity. It wasn't until Apple IIs invaded homes and schools everywhere that people started sharing programs and data, and that's when the personal computer era really took off. Users of other computers had to form their own user groups to share things, and had some moderate following, but Apple was kind of the "default" PC of the time (until the IBM PC took over). --LDC
"Affordability" is a key factor. As important a contribution as the technical features. That's why, in the long run, Macintosh was so much more important than Lisa (or Star). Re the success of the original Apple (II), I believe that the early availability of an affordable floppy disk drive (thanks again to Woz's genius) was the most important factor. - HWR
Wow! Quite the hagiography. -- The Cunctator
If affordability was the key the Commodore Vic20/64 and Sinclare really did the most for creating the HOME computer, and were at least as important as the Apple II (the Apple 1 was just a hobbiest machine like the Heathkit). The floppy drive was good, but at $600 hardly affordable. Jobs did a really good job of marketing to schools displacing the TRS/80 machines which were their first. In 1982 the Apple II was still quite expensive compared to the C64 with less memory and inferior graphics and sound. The Atari 800 was also a pretty strong machine at the time, and probably was the first HOME computer with good multi-media capabilities. None of this discounts Woz, but I object to saying that he created the PC. The technology in the Lisa, marketing to education, and the expansion slots in the Apple II were probably Apples biggest innovations.
--Jonathan--
I have to disagree. I was there (at least in the US market--I understand the UK market of the time was very different). The Commodore machines and the Sinclair never really mattered. Sure, they were cheap, and had somthing of a cult following, but the numbers never got anywhere close to those of the Apple II. The Sinclair machine was hopelessly underpowered and not well-supported, so it flopped completely in the US (it had some success in the UK). The Commodore machines (PET/VIC-20/C-64) fared somewhat better, but they shot themselves in the foot by not being compatible with each other, not being upgradeable, not supporting third-part software well, etc. I think their market share may have gone as high as 15%, but they were never really a factor. The one that came closest to Apple II's dominance was the Radio Shack TRS-80, pushed by the power of Tandy corp and using then-standard CP/M. Their techonolgy fell behind though (most notably lack of color), so they faded away.
I wouldn't say "Woz created the PC" either, but I would definitely say that the Apple II was the PC that put the term "PC" in the mouths of the American public, and Woz's innovations (its video system, its floppy system, its expansion slot system, and others) helped significantly (as did Jobs' marketing). --LDC
I could be wrong, but my perception was that in the USA of the machines being sold IN 1983 that Commordore was a MUCH larger market share than 15% (more like 30% vs. 35% for Apple). Futhermore, Europe was even more strongly in the Commodore camp. Real numbers would be a really interesting addition to this article. :-)
In the US, he Atari 400/800, Commodore 64, Sinclair, etc. were strictly consumer machines, not taken seriously by businesses. The Apple II sold to businesses as well as prosumers and hobbyists, which is why it was important; its success got the attention of Xerox, DEC, IBM. In addition, the Apple II was already well-established by the time these machines appeared. 1983? By that time the revolution was over!
Good ideas, good marketing, good vision and most of all truck loads of sheer good luck got the Apple crew out in front. Let it also be said good luck is only available to those people who put themselves in the right place at the right time. From memory I believe the brief history of PC's goes something like this :-
Doug Englebart :- gets it right the first time with his demo, back in the 60's of a PC featuring two networked computers offering a mouse, a video link, a full graphical operating system and colour monitor. Who invented the first PC? Doug did. Note well, it was some of Doug's crew on this project who went onto develop the STAR, the PC that haunts Xerox to this day.
Commodore Business Machines :- releases the PET. Very novel, very cheap and like a lot of home computers for a long time, completely under-estimated the home and business market. Certainly a good step forward though.
Apple :- sell a PC in bits over the counter. Good idea, no! Bloody genius idea! They get a huge name through their marketing, get some dollars from Mike and make the Apple ][.
Everyone else :- release good attempts that fall short of mediocracy at best.
IBM :- panic when they see the Apple ][ and then make Bill Gates into a billionaire. Nice one IBM.
Commodore Business Machines :- note the name, Business Machines, sell another toy, the VIC-20. Nice toy though. (My first PC at age 12, 1982). Commodore never did catch on to the fact that they needed to build one PC that did mostly everything for kids and adults alike.
Apple :- get a look at Doug Englebarts dream come true, the STAR, use his ideas and cement a place in the market place and history forever.
IBM :- who ???
Microsoft :- markets Windows and beats the crap out of every computer manufacturer and software writer in the world. Windows being the graphical overlay for PC-DOS and MS-DOS.
Commodore :- sell the 64 then he Amiga and then finally diappear. Mind you they are the last to fall, long after Spectrum, Apricot, Tandy, Texas Instruments, Microbee, and the list goes on.
Apple and Microsoft :- Woz quits and has a much better time of things in the garage. Jobs gets the sack and buys a small company called PIXAR. Makes Toy Story and gets rich again. Apple falls on its head without Jobs and begs him to come back. Jobs returns, Bill the Billionaire buys a huge chunk of Apple and thats what we've got, the Bill and Steve show.
Linux :- creeping up slowly ...
Bruce C.
I'd like to bring in to questions the last paragraph, where it states Woz permanently left Apple. AFAIK he still recieves a paycheque from Apple, at least as of 2001 (ref: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2001/06/22/woz/ ).
-66.88.6.151
//He mentions in his book, iWoz, that one of the misconceptions he does not like is that people think he left Apple. He clearly states that he is still an Apple employee and never left the company, persay.
iWoz, Chapter 20, Page 288 "To this day, I'm an Apple employee--I still have my Apple Employee ID card--and I receive a very low salary. And I continue to represent Apple at events and at speeches."
Setec 07:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC)//
Can we possibly get a picture of Steve Wozniak? I think it would add to the article significantly. Thanks. --Randy 12:31, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
To 128.187.232.180 who placed the neutrality notice on the page: what's up? Please explain why you think the page is POV here. Until then, I'm removing the message. — Frecklefoot | Talk 08:56, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)
Mr. Wozniak comes across as a human being in this article, which is good. He seems an idealistic person, certainly one motivated by a vision which he has made practical. I'm aware that such people exist- many of them, in fact.
I've tried to encourage a larger human dimension in the Steve Jobs article. According to people like Theodore Roszak, that is warranted with Mr. Jobs (in light of his early idealism). However, in the Jobs article, there is little sense if any about a) what motivates him; b) what he may wish or have wished to give to the human race; c) how his childhood and adolescent experiences may have prepared him for his later work in invention, in the computer field, etc.; how he thinks about the impact of his work (other thanmaybe market share).
The human dimension is not present enough in that article, and I miss it. By the way, I know next to nothing about Steve Jobs, so I'm not really the person to add the missing elements to the article.
I post this opinion here because when I posted in the S. Jobs discussion, my comment got little response in terms of action or serious comment.
Worst,
J.R.
In this paragraph:
"He asked his wife if he had been involved in an accident of some kind. When she told him of the event, his short-term memory was restored. Wozniak also credits computer games for aiding him in restoring those "lost" memories.
Woz became burned out at Apple. He got married and returned..."
I am confused about the wife stuff. How could he have asked his wife something if he hasn't married her yet?
Just wanted to add that the wife thing is confusing me too.
I see you've changed the part about asking his wife about the crash, so now they're married after the crash. Thats fine, so Clark is Wife number 1. Later you say they divorce and he meets Suzanne and marries her in 1990 (number 2?).
Then in the Post-Apple career he joins the Freemasons as "his second wife, Candi" was a member of Order of...
Apart from that its a good read. Thanks --TStarborg 15:39, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
6th grader needs answers- i am currently doing a 6th grade project and need to know who Steve Woniaks mother happens to be considering every site i have gone to hasnt named her thank you
I see the Failure magazine interview link was removed. Why? I didn't add the link in the first place, but I followed the link and found it to be a pretty good article. I wouldn't consider it spam, unless the interview was completely made up (which it doesn't appear to be). If no one objects, I'm going to add it back in. If you object, please state here why. — Frecklefoot | Talk 22:05, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC) ---
I came across the Slashdot post about Steve Job/Stanford commencement story. Anyways one of the posts, brought the attention that Wozniak got his degrees in computer science and electrical engineering on 1987. The source? Well, it is the official Steve Wozniak website. [1] According to that page, 1987 BS EECS U.C. Berkeley. Right now, Wikipedia is saying 1983. --Chill Pill Bill 05:54, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
--- This bio says he graduated in 1987, then later it says he graduated in 1983. And the part about crashing, then talking to his wife, then getting married doesn't make any sense.
It seems that Jobs wasn't responbile for the genius hardware design of some of their first projects, however, it seems Jobs has been credited for most of Apple's success. Is it fair to say that the company wouldn't have been nearly as successful had Woz quit a year or so in?
- windwaker
Wozniak and Jobs were proud to have originated an anti-corporate ethic among big players in the computer market.
What is this supposed to mean? Apple is certainly a highly corporate company, and Jobs isn't in any large way different in his approach to business than any others at his level in the technology field.
I took this out of the main article:
Without some sort of specifics, I really don't see the point in including it in the main article - there's just no substance to this. And unless it were to blow into some sort of Siegenthaler-style tempest in a teapot it's a point of absolute trivia. Bryan 19:33, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
I see some garbage next to the last link cited, and think it refers to a page on another language's wikipedia, but can't really decide wether to take it out or not. Please fix this or point me to reference in order to fix it myself. thanks! makeyourself 23:45, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I thought I'd just share that...;-)--67.17.144.2 23:50, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
According to Wozniak's speech about his life, I recall he attended University of Colorado but then later transferred to the University of California at Berkeley. He then, (correctly stated in the article) dropped out but later returned to complete his degree. Is there evidence to support he actually dropped out from the University of Colorado because I heard different. 203.218.216.179 02:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
He claims in his biography (iWoz) that he did not drop out of college, but deferred it for a year so that he could earn enough money to pay for his tuition. Then his dream job at HP came along and then Apple computer so he never got around to finishing his degree until the 80s.
This biography says that WoZ was founded in 2002, while the page for WoZ says 2001. Which one is correct? 151.198.233.92 19:19, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
In iWoz he says he joined the freemasons (as mentioned here too). Does anyone know what level of freemason he is at currently? JettaMann 00:26, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
From the Wikimedia live contributions list:
Steve Wozniak 2006-12-20 04:16:53 USD 200.00 200.00
Thanks, Woz. Chick Bowen 05:42, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
For those interested, I just changed iWoz from a redirect to this article into a real article. Take a look if you're interested. — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:58, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
The article calls Jobs and Wozniak high school friends. Was Wozniak held back five years? There's five years' difference in their ages. Preston McConkie 11:34, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
I just read this on msnbc (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19512577/):
"The other customers awarded the honorary first spot in line to Wozniak, who planned to buy two iPhones Friday even though he remains an Apple employee and will get a free one from the company next month."
Is that true? What exactly does he do at Apple as an "employee?" 75.5.93.130 01:00, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
i think the url having capital letters in it keeps me from being able to link to the steve wozniak page. is it possible to have it changed to lower-case?
Thinkdunson 09:16, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
It has already been pointed out, numerous times too, that the information on his wives do not add up. And who is Alice?? This is beyond ridiculous and the issue has been open for ages now. --13:43, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Has Steve Wozniak been awarded a non-honorary doctorate? If not, the introduction should not use the title Dr. Steve Wozniak. It is not conventional to use Dr as a title for honorary doctorates.
See [4]
Dellar 04:02, 31 July 2007
Thank you for that. The link you provided was for a honorary doctorate though. I can't see where he has a non-honorary (earned) doctorate (which by convention use the title of Dr - not honorary doctorates).
--dellar 00:00, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
He is not dating Kathy Griffin; removed from Trivia section, please see: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/08/steve-wozniak-d.html
--toddself 23:04, 20 August 2007 (EDT)
Seems info about wives, children, hobbies, etc might be moved to a personal section. Would make it easier to find this information when looking for that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.191.21 (talk) 04:15, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't the little falling out he had with Steve Jobs be mentioned? Before Apple took off, Jobs worked at Atari and would usually have Wozniak do most of the programming for him. When Jobs was asked to reduce the amount of chips used for a certain game (I can't remember which one off the top of my head), he was offered a bonus for every one he could remove since each chip removed would save Atari money. Wozniak was able to get it down to about 25 chips (when most arcade games used 75), and Jobs still got the bonus even though Atari didn't use the design (Wozniak did such a good job that the people at the facotry building the games couldn't reproduce it). Jobs told Wozniak he was splitting the bonus with him, but lied about the amount (Jobs got a bonus around $5,000 but told Wozniak it was $500). When Wozniak found out he was hurt. More info can be found in the book "The Ultimate History of Video Games". TJ Spyke 04:08, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi
I was going through some old magazine articles I wrote in the 70s and came across two from 1979. They may be of interest to some on this site.
You can see them at
http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~rtbrad/archive/woz interview apr 79.pdf
and
http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~rtbrad/archive/woz interview may 79.pdf
Contact if you want some more details. I have a similar interview with Jobs from the same timeframe somewhere.
Robin Bradbeer eersbrad@cityu.edu.hk http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~rtbrad
I removed this sentence:
It was recently edited to be "second wife, Candi" which is not correct, according to iWoz, where he writes "Sherry and Alice had gotten involved with a group called Eastern Star... In order to have more time with her, I decided that I would become a Freemason."
However, "About this time" refers to a point in the "Post-Apple Career" section around 1987, which is much later than the period he is describing in iWoz. So I'm just removing this sentence until someone sees fit to establish the correct chronology and put that back in the right place. I'm not even sure it's noteworthy. Jkraybill (talk) 23:23, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
I noticed there's no mention of the Dial a Joke service he ran from his home at one point, or of the joke book: The Official Computer Freaks Joke Book he co-authored with Larry Gonick (sorry, just checked and that should be Larry Wilde). Kieranocall (talk) 04:17, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
i have really old nintendo power magazines and i will check for the high scores of steve woznaik or evets kianzow. ill post tomorrow. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.138.203.253 (talk) 13:57, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
The book "iWoz" article should stand alone as a summary of the book, summarizing the biographical information presented in the book
The "Wozniak" article should retain its own (separate) biography, as it might emphasize different aspects, and serves a different purpose. wozniak and jobs are world wide heros with their invention of apple.
rhyre (talk) 20:10, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
"His favorite video game is Tetris.[33] In the 1990s he submitted so many high scores for the game to Nintendo Power that they would no longer print his scores, so he started sending them in under the alphabetically reversed "Evets Kainzow".[34]"
What happened to the support for the high scores and "Evets Kainzow"? There are no references that supports those claims. Joe hill (talk) 19:29, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
I object the continuing use of the term "engineer" in the autobio, rather than the correct term(s) "electronics technician" or "electrical engineering designer". As far as I know, Wozniak has never been registered with the California (or any other state)board of engineeing registration.Whodatinlrsc (talk) 03:23, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
I read through iWoz and he mentioned that he was a young republican in college. This seems like it would be a good addition to the personal section because I think that would surprise a lot of people. 24.76.167.34 (talk) 19:33, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
WP guidelines [5] say The opening paragraph should have:
So why does the introduction say "His ancestors are of Polish descent."? I suggest that this be removed from the introduction. Varsovian (talk) 18:55, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
He may have been a Freemason, but he's also an athiest which would disqualify him as a Freemason. I'm not making a value judgement since I'm also an ex-Freemason and a nontheist, but we should look at http://www.woz.org/letters/general/72.html where Woz says "I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.115.32 (talk) 18:39, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
There is nothing really in this article about his life before Apple. Could someone please make an early life section including where he was born, a little about his childhood (perhaps), where he went to school, etc. please? Thanks, Rooot (talk) 03:45, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Is it substantiated anywhere that he is of Polish descent? I’m afraid that, I was unable to find anything on it. However I did find some info that his parents were Ukrainian immigrants. I think this has started because there is up and coming tennis player named Alexandra Wozniak who is of Polish descent, however there is a lot of name overlapping within Slavic groups. Unless it is actually confirmed by him, I think his ethnic background should be left off altogether. Here is the link about his parents being from Ukraine, which is still not a confirmation, although it seems more genuine as it's quite specific as to which region of Ukraine his parents are from.
http://wnu-ukraine.com/news/economy-business/?id=563 Mykyta (talk) 02:42, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
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Fix the citation for Steve Jobs death. Please.
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1974 not 1964
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Hi, Steve crashed his plane at Scotts Valley airport, not Scott valley. Scotts Valley airport is between Santa Cruz and Los Gatos and was shut down to air traffic not long after Woz's crash. 74.107.107.52 (talk) 16:38, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
In the snippet below from the article, the Airplane Crash section says his wife helped him with his memory, then immediately following the Employment with Apple sections says he didn't go back to Apple right away after his recovery, but got married. This either makes no sense, or something is missing about his marriage situation, or something is amiss.
Airplane crash
... After questioning his wife, he finally began to figure out what had happened, after which his memory began operating correctly again. [edit]
Employment with Apple
Wozniak did not immediately return to Apple after having recovered from the crash. Instead, he married Candice Clark and returned to UC Berkeley— Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.126.38.40 (talk) 20:48, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Why not note this in the article? Anyone ashamed? --46.114.154.84 (talk) 12:53, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
One editor recently added a bit. [7] Any sources for that? I see places that he went to University of Colorado not that he quit and went to a local college instead. And he did single-handedly create the Apple. He was drawing out the design he wanted before he could afford the parts to build one. Dream Focus 22:24, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Was Steve Wozniak married at the time of his crash? according to the section on the crash he was he was but the next section says he then got married? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.46.90.15 (talk) 18:56, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm reading iWoz at the moment and in the opening paragraph he quotes his real name as Stephan instead of Stephen. Should the article be changed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.154.239.254 (talk) 09:35, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
I want to change "helped create the Apple I and Apple II computers" to "created the Apple I computer and co-created the Apple II computer". "Helped create" is too diminishing to his actual contribution. Objections? Renato (talk) 22:26, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
I think Woz worked as a high school science teacher for some years after Apple. If true, can somebody add this in, with refs? --Reify-tech (talk) 16:23, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
in the iWoz book (written by Steve Wozniak himself) it states that Steve was born Stephan (with an a) and not Stephen. Steve claims that there was a mistake when his birth certificate was written and his mother meant to name him Stephen, but that was not his legal name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rneu31 (talk • contribs) 05:43, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Polish name is Stefan (read in English exactly as Stephan). I think Stephan is more likely to be what his mother meant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.64.66.72 (talk) 04:36, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Updating to Stephen as all sourceable material spells it Stephen. Lloyddewolf (talk) 17:45, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
There is disagreement between the current wikipedia article and the most recent NY Times article on Apple regarding Wozniak's post highschool education (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html?pagewanted=2). The NYT claims that Wozniak attended a community college for 5 years until 1974, while the current wikipedia revision states that he enrolled in UC Berkeley in 71. Can someone reconcile these contradictory facts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.244.160.167 (talk) 01:09, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
The whole "history of hacking" doc is basically in relation to his history... and there's no mention of it. Why?
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cecky3pvxc
Unclefishbits (talk) 06:56, 31 July 2012 (UTC)Fishbits, 30 July 2012
This reference was removed along with the sentence it referred to because it was redundant. It is posted here in case it proves useful later. -> Alex Kidman (May 14, 2012). "Woz On Innovation, Robots And What Apple Does Wrong". ((cite web))
: Text "work-Gizmodo Australia" ignored (help) --
Blainster (talk) 04:28, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
I removed the Net Worth part of the Infobox for the following reasons:
If someone could find a real number to quote, with authoritative documentation, Wiki would be pleased. However, this does not appear to be easy or even possible right now.152.17.125.184 (talk) 18:48, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Per WP:NOT, I really don't think we should have the video section at the bottom of the article. Some of the videos are just promotional, like for his iWoz book, for crying out loud. If any of them have any pertinent information to the content of the article, they should be used as refs in the article. If no one objects, I'm going to delete the whole subsection. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 16:49, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Why is that when Woz is Googled the Wikipedia entry says "No information should be given about Steve Wozniak due to Apple products sucking but here you go anyway. You're Welcome." Clicking 'Cached' makes the phrase appear in the Wikipedia entry, otherwise the phrase does not appear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.71.9.192 (talk) 03:53, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
I have no idea how to tag it, but it really does need a significant re-write... there's a lot of repetition of facts, clumsy style elements (such as lists of factoids), and a general feel of ham-handed writing all around it. It seems as though five different people wrote it, three of whom English was not their primary language... in seven different independently written stages.
I'd tag it for special review for that purpose but have no idea how to go about doing it. Hopefully someone more devoted to wiki will look at it and agree, and set that up. 2602:301:77EC:CBA0:9853:C70F:7438:E8D9 (talk) 23:38, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
The article should mention the amount of money Jobs made for the Atari Breakout job. Most web references say $5,000. It's a significant amount, it makes Jobs look like a massive wang, to con his business partner and someone who considered him a friend. It's relevant since it's an important and well-know part of Woz's history. Just finding an acceptable reference would be good. 188.29.165.66 (talk) 22:44, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Is he (by descent, not religion)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.231.219.49 (talk) 01:15, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
The exact ethnic background of Steve is an interesting question. His surname is common in Western Ukraine and can be either Ukrainian or Polish. His father was born in Bukovina, which is currently located in Ukraine. but before WWI was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and between the wars was part of Romania. It is not an area known for having a significant Polish population, although it neighbours an area that was administered by Poland between the wars. His mother was of German extraction, which is logical for the Bukovina region. In some wikipedia articles in other languages he is listed as being Ukrainian (Ukrainian, Byelorusan, Czech) and in others (English, Polish, Russian) as Polish. I doubt that he associates himself with any of these ethnic groups though, but being born in the USA, he definitely is American. Banduryst (talk) 06:26, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
Australian nationality should be removed. The article states he has an Australian visa. Holding a visa doesn't make one an Australian national. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:D:2F81:EF10:E8F0:1D96:162E:FEE (talk) 02:51, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages.
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion.
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 16:38, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Multi-millionaire Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has his eye on Australia as a nice place to end up when he eventually decides to settle down. According to the Australian edition of the International Business Times, Wozniak is well on the way to formally gaining Australian citizenship.
The IB Times says that Wozniak was granted permanent resident status this past weekend due to his status as a "distinguished person"—a common term that many countries use in their immigration criteria to allow famous people to quickly establish residences without having to meet other more difficult immigration requirements.
Wozniak plans to purchase a home in Sydney, where he teaches classes at the city’s University of Technology. Woz also has family there: his son is already a resident, thanks to a marriage to an Australian citizen.
Residency is only one step on the path toward actual citizenship, but Wozniak seems focused on the idea of being able to eventually relocate his entire family to Australia. "I want to be a distinguished part of this country and some day I may say I lived and died an Australian, and that would be a really nice thing to be able to say," he told the Australian Financial Review.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/12/22/steve-wozniak-on-track-to-become-australian-citizen/
Wozniak likes NBN so much, he’s applying for citizenship http://www.afr.com/technology/wozniak-likes-nbn-so-much-hes-applying-for-citizenship-20120925-j9j3v
12 Aug 2010, - Big gig: NBN to be 10 times faster When the Government first unveiled the $43 billion NBN plan it promised to deliver speeds of 100 megabits per second (Mbps).
But Senator Conroy now says fibre-optic speeds will hit 1 gigabit per second, 10 times faster than first thought. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-08-12/big-gig-nbn-to-be-10-times-faster/941408
Faith in Apple’s future as Woz becomes an Aussie http://www.afr.com/technology/cloud-computing/faith-in-apples-future-as-woz-becomes-an-aussie-20141219-12a9gd
Wozniak says his decision to make Australia home came after he received an email from old friend, Sydney-based barrister Nicholas Baltinos, alerting him to the fact it could be a possibility.
With a son married to an Aussie and resident in Sydney, and a fondness for the local culture, Wozniak says he plunged into the lengthy series of visa applications, medicals and FBI checks before finally being accepted.
“I have now got a visa for distinguished people – or something like that – it took a long time and cost some money, but we have done it for our entire family, so we can all reside here," Wozniak says.
“I want to be a distinguished part of this country and some day I may say I lived and died an Australian, and that would be a really nice thing to be able to say. No country is perfect, but I like a lot of things about this place."
The Wozniaks will initially buy a home in Sydney, and are using a current visit to go house hunting. He says he’ll continue to be based mainly in the US for the time being, due to his frequent public speaking engagements, but intends to settle in Australia when he starts to slow down a bit. http://www.afr.com/technology/cloud-computing/faith-in-apples-future-as-woz-becomes-an-aussie-20141219-12a9gd
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak joins UTS http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/apple-cofounder-steve-wozniak-joins-uts-20141021-119qco.html
Wozniak to be a permanent fixture http://www.smh.com.au/business/wozniak-to-be-a-permanent-fixture-20141218-12aecr.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.187.250.204 (talk) 14:52, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
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I added Steve Wozniak's college degree to the Infobox because I couldn't find information about it in the article. The internet has several conflicting claims about his college degree:
Steve Wozniak's own personal website confirms that both MIT and ThoughtCo.com are correct. It says "1987 BS EECS U.C. Berkeley".[12] --JHP (talk) 21:02, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi Guys,
I think that there is a huge mistake in the Steve Wozniak biography. It is more related to his origins than to himself.
In the article, there is a phrase "(Ukrainians who lived in the former Ukrainian city of Przemyśl, today Poland[11])".
Przemysl is a polish city and never belongs to Ukraine, more to it Ukrainians have done a genocide of polish people in this area.
Please do not twist our history, this is unacceptable for us Polish.
Kind regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.233.159.69 (talk) 10:09, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
This book iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon, proves that Steve Wozniak is a Polish ancestry.
https://books.google.pl/books?id=hlA6Xv3-59YC&lpg=PA130&ots=Hs79jl0vAQ&dq=Steve%20Wozniak%20polish&hl=pl&pg=PA129#v=onepage&q=Steve%20Wozniak%20polish&f=false
It is a 2006 autobiography by computer engineer and programmer Steve Wozniak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWoz — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.235.147.100 (talk) 18:13, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
This
And this
Steve Wozniak in Kyiv: I am Ukrainian!
He has not got a so-called Ukrainian origin. When his ancestry moved to USA, Ukrainian didn't exist. Woźniak is a pure Polish surname. Does he calls "Wozniuk" like "Kravchuk" or "Timoshchuk"? Polish ending is -ak, Ukrainian is - uk. Anyway, Wozniak said that he is the most famous Pole in the entire world after Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Next, check it out:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Grody_czerwienskie.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth_in_1619.PNG
In English Wikipedia article it's mentioned that Steve is "Albanian-American inventor,...". Is he Albanian of origin? His name family "Wozniak" is typical POLISH name and originally written as "Woźniak". In Polish Wikipedia Steve Wozniak is described as "American engineer and inventor of Polish descent". Can anyone verify it?
Wozniak's place of birth is listed here as San Jose, but no evidence is provided for that claim. His actual place of birth is not stated in his autobiography. A careful reading of The Little Kingdom tracks Jerry Wozniak from CalTech in Pasadena to "about a year working as a junior engineer at a small company in san francisco," then quit and spent about 12 months working on a startup in an unspecified location with an unspecified friend (26). Soon thereafter, he and Margaret are back in Southern California, where Wozniak is raised until 1958, when Jerry relocates to Sunnyvale work at Lockheed. No dates on when Jerry went from Caltech to San Francisco, when he and Margaret married, or when they returned to So Cal--so do we *actually* know where Woz was born, or has it just been presumption? Does anyone have source material vetted by Wozniak himself? ---Sierra OffLine (talk) 16:55, 10 July 2020 (UTC)