How Steve Wozniak Brought Color to Personal Computers

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/01/Steve_Wozniak_Creativity_in_the_21st_Century

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recalls the moment he stumbled upon the idea of how to put color into personal computers. The inspiration came during a sleepless four-day and four-night design session while building the Atari game Breakout. "That was probably one of the biggest things Apple ever did," he says.

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Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and philanthropist in conversation at the Discovery Forum 2010 with Emmy-award winning journalist Dana King from CBS 5 Eyewitness News.

Renowned technology pioneer Steve Wozniak speaks to the importance of hands-on learning and encouraging creativity, and how the Bay Area Discovery Museum is a critical resource for preparing children for the challenges of the 21st century.

The Discovery Forum serves to increase awareness about the importance of childhood creativity, and raises support for the Museum's educational exhibitions and programs. - Bay Area Discovery Museum

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America's leading innovators.

In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for "single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers."

Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak "adopted" the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.

Steve is currently a member of the board of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony solutions, and Danger, Inc., developer of a end-to-end wireless Internet platform.

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[baconboy7227]

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

[MrRightAllTime]

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

[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.

[MultiVladimir12]

@MrRightAllTime r'u serieus dude?

[DrStrangelove0101]

The woz is one of America's living treasures

[EcoDimension]

i command you worship this guy

[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.

[chopsueykungfu]

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

[swiftshady]

Woz  is a legend