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by Steve Wozniak (Author), Gina Smith (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. (3 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0393061434
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393061437
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.5 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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Once upon a time, computers looked like big, alien vending machines. They had large screens, cryptic switches, huge boxes, and odd lights. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal comp

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wozniak: Computer innovator's chatty life story, 27 Mar 2007
By Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract.com" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This honest memoir of Apple innovator Steve Wozniak's life runs from a childhood spent discovering how things work to his breakthrough: building the first affordable computer with a keyboard and monitor. Written in an unconventional, first-person style, this autobiography is chatty, and sounds almost childlike. "Woz" tells stories of pranks he played, people who influenced him and the inventions he created. The first half of the book covers his life before Apple, and the second half tells of Apple's birth as a company, and his life during and after Apple. We recommend this personal visit with Woz to those with an interest in the history of technology and, in particular, the Apple-seed that gave birth to the Mac.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Black & White replaced by Grey!, 22 Oct 2006
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Steve at first seems overly self-interested, but this reflects the stage of his life he is recalling. Woz tries to put right some of the half-truths and errors that have been reported about his involvement with Apple. He is rightly proud of the things he has created and makes this very clear in this book. The content of iWoz falls between a biography and a techincal analysis of Woz's designs.It has an easy to read style and although it contains a good bit of geek tech-talk it does not get in the way of the main message.
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27 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, but egocentric and badly written, 28 Sep 2006
I bought this book last week because I'm an Apple addict, and only use Windows when someone's holding a gun to my head, and even then I run it in a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro. I love the design, the performance, the whole ethos that surrounds Apple products: their hardware is functional and sexy at the same time, and the Operating System is rock solid stable, secure and quick, and the user interface is light years ahead of anything else on the market.

The book, however, has none of the quality one would expect of things Apple. While I appreciate that Woz is an extremely clever and talented man, and had a lot of "firsts" in the personal computer field, blowing his own trumpet loudly at least once in every paragraph starts getting annoying after the first 5 pages, even allowing for the fact that Americans are less reticent about this kind of thing than your average Brit. It really taints what is a fantastically interesting and inspiring story. If you can filter out the egotistical from the story, it is well worth the read.

It would also have helped if he'd let his co-writer and editor correct his writing style a little: it sometimes comes across as stinted and makes for sometimes difficult reading. It also comes across as being purely Woz, and very little editorial influence, as if he ignored all their advice.

Wish I could give it a higher rating, as its a story of mythical proportions, but its just so badly written and so overtly subjective, that it just doesn't justify anything higher.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Very Disappointing
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1. Steve Wozniak is a brilliant engineer.
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