Re: The wizardry of Woz ..

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yttrx wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Have a look at this one...
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1418165.stm
> >
> >       Lawyer moves to patent wheel
>
>
> Yeah.  Luckily here in the US, as retarded as the patent process
> is, it's not as retarded as australia's.
>
>
> > > Please.  Lets wait till the fucker is dead before we deify him, shall
> > > we?
> >
> >
> > I can tell you're into Gothic stuff, but that's just morbid... should Woz be
> > pleased about this? Is it like that Black Parade storyline?
>
>
> I don't know what wozniak is pleased by, other than yellow lasers.
>
> But really, the fact is that if it hadn't been woz, it would have been
> someone else.  Yes, his contributions are wildy important and should be
> inscribed in gold somewhere very impressive.
>
> But the man isn't a god.

Concur there.

What Woz was good at was seeing how to minimalize circuitry to get the 
job done.  His job on the original apple disk controller, and the fact 
that he managed to get all the circuit traces on one side of the board, 
made it possible to cheaply manufacture the interface.  That was pretty 
much his bag, which he enjoyed doing.  Woz is just pretty much a laid 
back guy.

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