A Day with The Woz

“‘The Woz’ built the first [personal computer]—by hand, himself.”—USA Today A real life one-day experience, read how it felt for an Apple fanboy when he met Stephen Gary "Steve" Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc, who single-handedly invented both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s. This short storybook is a detailed account of how Waseef Akhtar had a chance to meet and hang out with one of his hero "Woz", when he visited Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in February, 2013. He found this once-in-a-life-time opportunity such an incredible experience that he decided to document it in a book and share it with the world. This also includes a short private audio interview with Woz just prior to his TV interview.

[waseefakhtar]

Thank you. 5K times.

With over 1.63K downloads on iTunes and 3.5K on Amazon, numerous reviews on stores as well as by a few well-known blogs around the world, including Mashable, “A Day with The Woz” celebrates its 1st anniversary today.

The Buzz:

Sure, this is a puff piece, but it’s free, it’s fun, and I wish it had happened to me.

Waseef Akhtar, a geeky kid from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, of all places, meets Steve Wozniak and gets to talk with him for a few hours. The Woz is as gracious and gentle as his reputation would lead you to expect. He even gives Waseef his business card with his personal phone number on it — in binary, of course. You have to admire somebody who could step away from the Steve Jobs reality distortion field and lead a sane life instead. God willing, may Waseef be as fortunate.

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Why Apple's co-founder wants a giant-sized smartwatch?

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has told Click he is a "big fan" of smart watches, but said he wanted one which has full smartphone capability. Mr Wozniak said he did not want a small-sized smartwatch and suggested a foldable, flexible screen might provide the solution.

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Steve Jobs, John Sculley, Steve Wozniak; at the Apple IIc introduction; April 24, 1984.

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Waseef Akhtar was 14 years old when he got his hands on his first iPod — “an iPod Nano, third generation,” he says with a tinge of pride

The Riyadh, Saudi Arabia native, 20, has since been hooked on Apple products. He has collected a MacBook and several iPhones, and spent...

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Apple’s Gold Computer, in 1984. 

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Waseef Akhtar was 14 years old when he got his hands on his first iPod — “an iPod Nano, third generation,” he says with a tinge of pride

The Riyadh, Saudi Arabia native, 20, has since been hooked on Apple products. He has collected a MacBook and several iPhones, and spent...

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Steve Wozniak: Microsoft resting on laurels (Video)

What you need to know: Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak has said that rival Microsoft has been “resting on” the markets it built up a “long, long time ago”. He told the BBC that one of the key reasons for the success of Apple was that despite being a big firm, it had remained nimble and innovative. "Samsung had great marketing prowess," he said. "They also had distribution channels in so many markets of the world.

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The Report, EP 002 - Interview by Dan Patterson A New Domain's Gina Smith (http://anewdomain.net) meets Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak for burgers in San Francisco. In this episode she hands the phone to KoPoint's Dan Patterson (http://kopoint.com) for a quick chat about what Steve loves about his Nokia Lumia and other mobile devices.

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Following are emails between a high school student in Jeju, Korea and Steve Wozniak. I could only find the korean version of the student’s email, which I’ve translated into English.

Mr. Wozniak! I’m a high school student in Korea. I am in second year of Se-Hwa high school in Jeju. My...

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Woz and I are different in most ways, but there are some ways in which we’re the same, and we’re very close in those ways. We’re sort of like two planets in their own orbits that every so often intersect. It wasn’t just computers, either. Woz and I very much liked Bob Dylan’s poetry, and we spent...

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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs (via revaballerina)

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Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Apple I

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Techology and social revolution: Steve Wozniak at TEDxBrussels (by TEDxTalks)

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When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it … Now it turns out that every single thing we send as email counts as publicly viewable and it’s totally open and exposed, and can be taken for whatever reason. That wasn’t supposed to be. That wasn’t where we thought the Internet was going to go. We thought it was going to elevate the really average people over huge, big, controlling governments and protect us from tyrants. Instead, it allows the tyrants to get tighter control over more and more of our lives.

Steve Wozniak

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The first day I had the Newton, I hand-wrote a message… I got a phone call in the San Francisco airport on the way to Disneyworld with my kids. And I hand-wrote a message to myself on a notepad paper: Sarah — that’s my daughter — dentist, Tuesday, 2PM. And I saw a button called “Assist,” and I thought, this must be a menu. And I tapped the Assist button — it opened up the calendar, Tuesday at 2PM, it put in the word “dentist” and it grabbed Sarah out of my contact list. And that was the first time in my life I had seen a computer understand… I had written something for a human, and the computer understood it.

Steve Wozniak on how the Newton changed his life | The Verge (via thisistheverge)

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How The Woz created Breakout.