How Steve Wozniak Brought Color to Personal Computers
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
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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.
Wozniak is the real Tony Stark. Maybe not in terms of personality or lifestyle, but definitely in terms of engineering skills.
I don't people will ever understand the level of thinking you have to be at to discover something like this. This is super-hero type ability. Woz is the man.
The Woz in a genius! Always enjoy hearing his stories.
Huge respect Woz.
Breakout is still one of the best games ever made for Atari. Steve and Steve rule.
Wozniac built the whole game and Jobs took the money... That's what I call friendship!
That's what happens when you do a fourier transform as a kid.
Wozniak is fuc*ing genuine.
This guy is awesome.
@RyanR242
Being a billionaire is cool and all, but it must be incredibly rewarding for Woz to know that he's changed all of humanity for the better until the end of our species. Now that is pretty exciting. A better legacy than any king or politician.
Makes me wonder why it took years to put colour into the Mac.
ericcox2,
No, the Apple II had color 3 years before the Tandy CoCo.
@Telstar85 don't forget the Woz
Cool
@ericcox2
Tandy had Personal color computers in 1964? I don't think so.
The better Steve.
I miss orange iMacs
Does anyone know the mechanics of what Woz is talking about? Is he saying that he physically manipulated the light waves coming out of the monitor or what?
He figured out a way to artificially create & control the "waves" (i.e. frequencies) that generate the colors in pixels in color tv's. He created the "waves" in a chip on the mother board. Chips work off "Hi" and "Low" inputs...or in other terms a 1 (which equals Hi) and a 0 (which equals low)....he figured out the space between the repeated 1's and 0's in to create the wave to create a certain color....once he figured out each colors "wave" (i.e. frequency) he then made it repeat fast...which that fast wave created the color. He basically figured out how to tune each frequency of 1's and 0's to create a color. Its no different that scrolling through the radio stations and landing on a frequency of a radio station. In this case the "radio scroll knob" is the chip and the "frequency" is the 1's and 0's wave. Someone can probably explain it better but thats it in a nut shell.
Cool story
He was on the latest episode of The Big Bang Theory. It's the great and powerful WOZ! lol
So does Woz hold the patent for that colour tech or did Jobs find a way to make it Apple's?
I guess this is why Woz still makes hundreds of millions every year. Good on him :)
He had that thought when he was "tired", yeah right :P
@MrRightAllTime r'u serieus dude?
woz in the hood i see u
chuck norris is on color tv because of woz!!
@baconboy7227 Had his management style really been no-bullshit, he wouldn't have lost his work to the "other d-bag" (Bill =P). And then he left for how many years? ^.^
But yeah he was one hell of a manager though. I'll concur with that.
that's my uncle.
Go for linux instead, much more capable and you can do what thou wish with it.
Affordable color computer is what apple invented.
Affordable color computer is what Steve invented. (i fixed it for you)
Didn't Jobs screw him over bigtime with Breakout? I head that he told Wozniak that the prize had been only 200 Dollars or something and he gave him 100, so 50%. But what "they" really won was 5000 Dollars. So Jobs kept the 4900 Dollars and gave Wozniak only 100. I don't know if it's true, but if it is: What a piece of shit.
Wozniak was the true genius at Apple for a long time. The Apple I and Apple II were his designs and they worked perfectly for decades. Everything Jobs touched or started (e.g. the Macintosh) was either garbage, overpriced or just underdeveloped.
Corristo89 The basepay was $700 and for every chip Jobs removed, he’d get a $50 bonus. Jobs never told Woz about the bonus which accumulated to $5000 and Jobs didn’t tell Woz about the bonus. Instead, he gave him the $350. Woz learned about the bonus by the end of the eighties. Woz says if Jobs was honest with him, he’d understand
@@HajimeNoJMo What is known about Woz's original design? From what I understand, he ended up reducing the chip count substantially below the number that Atari ended up using, but the circuit was a bit finicky. There are a number of ways I can imagine (ab)using 556 timer chips to replace counters, for example, but I don't know the specifics of what Woz did. As an extreme example, it would be possible to handle ball vertical motion by using one 555 timer (or half of a 556) to generate vertical sync, and another at almost the same frequency to generate the ball position, and have some logic gates bias the input of the latter so as to nudge its frequency to be slightly faster or slower than the vertical sync timer. Making this work would require some absurdly precise calibration which would probably need to be set after the machine had warmed up to equilibrium temperature; letting the machine cool down would throw off the calibration until the next time the machine warmed up, but if one used ten-turn pots for calibration, one could probably make a workable circuit to handle vertical sync and ball motion circuit using only two chips. Additional 555 timers could then be used to control the paddle's vertical position, the height of each row of bricks, the number of displayed rows of bricks, etc. It would be interesting to know what degree of calibration would have been required for Woz's original design, and for the design Atari ended up adopting.
i love that man no homo XD
Uhhhm, hey Steve?
Tandy Color Computer had color 13 years before you.
Thought you should know.
Near as I can tell, the Tandy Color computer came out 3 years *after* the Apple II.
Woz owns so hard it isn't funny.
woz in the hood i see u