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Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck

A.P. Veening Silver badge

Re: Woz not Jobs

Woz's vision -> democratize computers, bring the utility to the masses, push the available tech to its limits, think laterally and solve problems in alternative ways.

And preferably as cheap as possible.

One good example is formed by the Apple floppy disk drives. Those lacked a sensor for the head to see at what track it was (too expensive), so on boot the head would move 40 tracks in one direction (while there were originally only 36 used), so the position was established. Afterward the position was kept in memory.

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