Mac daddy Woz hospitalized in Mexico over mystery malady Reports indicate that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been hospitalized in Mexico City following a speech at the World Business Forum. According to Spanish news outlet El País, Wozniak was taken to ABC Santa Fe hospital in Mexico City for an emergency MRI on Wednesday after suffering a suspected ischemic stroke, which is …
> Not Mac daddy
Author Brandon Vigliarolo is about (I think) the same age as the Mac (1984?). I'll cut him slack for fuzzing-up the year of his birth in return for a mildly cute headline. (Note that it incites us old-folk to click and correct the author, page-views, a prime feature of good commercial journalism.)
That would probably be one Burrell Smith, another Woz level Apple genius.
He did design the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) some 10+ years before USB or FireWire were invented.
ADB allowed for the daisychaining of devices like mice, keyboards, joysticks and graphics tablets.
It was more agreeable to be able to plug the mouse into the keyboard rather than straight into the computer.
And you didn't have to worry about IRQs and the like.
From the NHS website:
"Vertigo feels like you or everything around you is spinning – enough to affect your balance. It's more than just feeling dizzy.
A vertigo attack can last from a few seconds to hours. If you have severe vertigo, it can last for many days or months.
...
What causes vertigo
Inner ear problems, which affect balance, are the most common causes of vertigo."
Nothing to do with a reaction heights.
The guy is 73, he's overweight. Sad to say, he's probably close to morbidly obese - not exactly uncommon in our modern times.
Yeah, I know photos online of someone don't prove it - but heck, he isn't exactly Mr. Skinny. Modern disease, many have it. Could be diabetes - could be just he's getting old.
Fingers crossed he makes it through this - and hopefully has a diet change and lives decades longer!
He's a legend.
“ Mexico City is one of the highest-elevation cities in the world, sitting at 7,349 feet (2,240 meters) above sea level”
Ouch - Nairobi was hard on me (seriously unfit back then though) and that’s a couple of thousand feet lower. Marginal if elevation was a factor in Woz’s minor stroke though. Time up there can actually be good for health.
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