Steve Wozniak
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Wozniak in June 2005
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Stephen (or Stephan) Gary Wozniak August 11, 1950 San Jose, California, U.S. |
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| Net worth | US$100 million |
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| Children | 5 |
| Call-sign | ex-WA6BND (ex-WV6VLY) |
| Website | www |
Stephen (or Stephan) Gary "Steve" Wozniak (/ˈwɒzniæk/, born August 11, 1950), nicknamed "Woz", is an American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer, and technology entrepreneur who co-founded Apple Inc. He is known as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Wozniak single-handedly developed the 1976 Apple I, which was the computer that launched Apple. He primarily designed the 1977 Apple II, while Jobs oversaw the development of its unusual case and Rod Holt developed the unique power supply.
Steve Wozniak was born in San Jose, California, the son of Margaret Elaine (Kern) and Jacob Francis "Jerry" Wozniak. He is of Polish and Swiss-German ancestry. His father was from Bukovyna, Ukraine (Poland at the time) and his mother from German-Swiss background. The family emigrated to US.
The name on Wozniak's birth certificate is "Stephan Gary Wozniak", but Steve's mother said that she intended it to be spelled "Stephen", and "Steve" is what he uses.
Wozniak has been referred to frequently by the nickname "Woz", "The Wonderful Wizard of Woz", "The Second Steve", or "The Woz"; "WoZ" (short for "Wheels of Zeus") is also the name of a company Wozniak founded. The city of San Jose named a street "Woz Way" in his honour.
In the early 1970s, Wozniak was also known as "Berkeley Blue" in the phone phreak community, after he made a blue box.
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