How Steve Wozniak Brought Color to Personal Computers

[TheMursk]

Wozniac built the whole game and Jobs took the money... That's what I call friendship!

[Jarmo187]

Wozniak is fuc*ing genuine.

[y2kboy23]

The Woz in a genius! Always enjoy hearing his stories.

[DrStrangelove0101]

The woz is one of America's living treasures

[EcoDimension]

i command you worship this guy

[chopsueykungfu]

Makes me wonder why it took years to put colour into the Mac.

[Jupitroid]

@chopsueykungfu My guess is that putting color capability into the Macintosh hardware would have driven the price up pretty high. When the Macintosh II came out the base system was $5200, but the completely color capable system was around $10,000. By the time it came out pros in printing and publishing were willing to spend that much for such a system. Early desktop publishing (which saved the Mac) got by on a mix of old and new methods which didn't require color computers.

[swiftshady]

Woz is a legend

[Telstar85]

I never forget Woz, he has showed me how a garage-geek can get very popular and well known, but still remaining as a good guy, unlike many others needless to mention. But they don't have the passion to technology like Woz has. And that passion shows.

[TheRetroZombie]

This guy is awesome.

[VenomStryker]

He was on the latest episode of The Big Bang Theory. It's the great and powerful WOZ! lol

[tomhargreavescom]

3 people here are still using black and white computers.

[sabreharyanto]

to people who said there was an earlier pc with color....Wozniak has the patent. He invented it. People just love Jobs more than wozniak because wozniak is a nerd. People don't like nerds because they look stupid according to hollywood movies.

[fartamplifer]

Woz owns so hard it isn't funny.

[Telstar85]

The world needs more Steves.

[DarkPrynce]

@Telstar85 I could go without jobs, selling stuff is his strong point, we got plenty of greedy pricks. However, i couldn't do without the woz...

[TheRetroZombie]

@Telstar85 don't forget the Woz

[smutpow]

@Telstar85 Unless that steve has the name starting with a ball and ends with mer, then the we don't bloody want even a single 1. No thanks you very much, the world would be so much better without monkey boy.

[Telstar85]

@smutpow That's a good point, But, Ballmer has had a few good points. One of them is "How much is Windows worth? $500? $1000? Even more? NO!" and the other one is "Developers, developers, developers ...." :)

I shouldn't have summarized Woz and Jobs with a monkey, that's an insult, sorry about that!

[Whitegamer009]

I have a PC and am considering switching to Mac because of stuff like this. When you listen to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak talk about building their company its just amazing hearing them and the ideas that they implemented that have truly changed the world... at least in this period of history!

[iburl]

@Whitegamer009 Once you go mac, you never go back :)

[Macmittens411]

that's my uncle.

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[bigkest666]

steve woz is my hero!!! ;)

[venuecam]

So does Woz hold the patent for that colour tech or did Jobs find a way to make it Apple's?

I guess this is why Woz still makes hundreds of millions every year. Good on him :)

[venuecam]

Breakout is still one of the best games ever made for Atari. Steve and Steve rule.

[Youzarzif]

He looks like a walrus...

[alkapone187]

@Youzarzif yeah so, he probably gotten more pussy then you can ever get in all your life.

[Youzarzif]

@alkapone187 don't know what that has to do with my comment but hey..too bad you haven't got any pussy yet..there is still chance..if ur not a walrus like him! and no, girls don't give pussy to a walrus like him..you should know, better than anyone!

[rob92376]

he is racist against microsoft colors.

[Berus777]

Steve Wozniak is sexy.  There. I said it.

[jimboman1337]

somebody wants an invite to lockerz?

Pm me and i send you one!

if you think lockerz is a scam site read about it then if you want an invite pm me your mail and i send an invite to your mail!

[ericcox2]

Uhhhm, hey Steve?

Tandy Color Computer had color 13 years before you.

Thought you should know.

[RJLeffmann]

ericcox2,

No, the Apple II had color 3 years before the Tandy CoCo.

[Punkstermom]

Affordable color computer is what apple invented.

[Wickedgardengtp]

@ericcox2  Tandy had Personal color computers in 1964? I don't think so.

[janus69tube]

But what about Håkan Lans then?

[Paxmax]

LOL! yeah, the Håkan Lans battle continues... It's crazy. But I think Apple actually paid their licenses in the beginning.

[lAuthenticl]

Thanks Steve for selling your founder stock to the team. Jobs u greedy twat.

[m0nkeybl1tz]

Does anyone know the mechanics of what Woz is talking about? Is he saying that he physically manipulated the light waves coming out of the monitor or what?

[sn1pe352]

Its the same reason why people who are normally not funny are able to be amazing comedians i the morning when they first wake up and usually why people laugh alot when they first wake up, when the EGO is asleep we begin to use our own natural and spontaneous intuitions creatively which is what ends up making futuristic changes, this is also very important in understanding "WHat" light really is considering the AM-FM modulations created by this information in a circle as he calls it

[Truthiness231]

^.^ That's the good Steve. Fuck the other one; the corporate douche...

[anikinippon]

Cool story

[Delus1on77]

steve jobs = douche, steve woz = genius

[baconboy7227]

Well Steve's douchiness has advanced Apple, along with Woz's genius. Jobs described Apple, from day 1, as being a place we're negative traits were kept in check by the team, resulting in a positive outcome. As a side note, though, I do like Job's no-bullshit management style. It keeps everyone focused and has delivered great products.

[Truthiness231]

@baconboy7227 Had his management style really been no-bullshit, he wouldn't have lost his work to the "other d-bag" (Bill =P). And then he left for how many years? ^.^

But yeah he was one hell of a manager though. I'll concur with that.

[baconboy7227]

Well Job's didn't leave, he was pushed out by the CEO of Apple, John Sculley, for being too strict and demanding too much of his employees. After Jobs was pushed out, Gates saw the opportunity to become big-dog in the computing world, and released Windows 3, basically a copy of Job's original OS. At this point, Jobs was on to better things at his start-up company, Nextstep, and couldn't really do anything about Gate's theft.

[Chris12163]

Gotta thank Steve Wozniak for being part of Apple

[yasir25119918]

Huge respect Woz.

[callwithcurrentconti]

Ah, the better Steve is a Feynman.

[azandu]

The King

[baconboy7227]

If one Steve didn't have the other Steve, computing today would have been vastly different. Here's to teamwork.

[originalrecipes]

Wrong. If it weren't for Microsoft computing would be in the dark ages. Bill Gates and Ballmer were true pioneers. Look at it today. 98% market share for Windows!

[2spittingcobras]

@originalrecipes

lol.

[xhisokax]

Wozniak>jobs

[RyanR242]

For geeks, but for business people Jobs>Woz. As baconboy7227 comments above if the two hadn't been together personal computing today would be a very different thing, probably not for the better.

[ls1z28chris]

@RyanR242

Being a billionaire is cool and all, but it must be incredibly rewarding for Woz to know that he's changed all of humanity for the better until the end of our species. Now that is pretty exciting. A better legacy than any king or politician.

[pipasforjaz]

Cool

[tipoomaster]

The better Steve.

[MrRightAllTime]

damn that's why i hate apple, i wanted black and white

[ilara72]

@MrRightAllTime

LMAO

[MultiVladimir12]

@MrRightAllTime r'u serieus dude?