Steve Wozniak's Letters

I recently stumbled upon a blog post by Mike Birken where he describes a 2006 meeting with Steve Wozniak at a Barnes & Noble. (https://meatfighter.com/woz/)

Apparently, Wozniak had played a prank in the 70s where he created a fake advertisement for Zaltair, a fictitious successor to the MITS Altair computer built around the Zilog Z80 instead of the Intel 8080. He copied some of the worst ads he could find for wording and distributed the brochures at the West Coast Computer Faire. Birken recreated the brochure and was able to get Wozniak to sign it. Interestingly, Wozniak was carrying laser-cut stainless-steel business cards, which he handed out at the Barnes & Noble event.

Woz is awesome and I'd love to meet him someday. Some other cool Woz stories: https://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&ch...

After reading three of these I decided to just start listening to the audiobook of iWoz. Free on my library app. Very cool description of his excellently nerdy childhood. Especially if you're a parent his dad relationship seems like solid gold. Anyway so far so good :thumbs-up:

Cool site, but I do wish these were date stamped. Sometimes you can get an idea when they were sent based on content, but other times it is a bit hard to know.

I’m seeing Woz content everywhere. Does he have a book coming out or something?

What happened to his crypto currency project?

I got to virtually meet Woz during the pandemic. He was as friendly, nerdy and approachable as rumored.

Story here: https://www.jonandnic.com/2020/05/08/that-time-i-talked-to-a...

Repeating my comment from another thread:

I can't help but wonder if the lack of https on woz.org is intentional or simply overlooked.

Will be awesome if people who wrote the emails are here and can introduce themselves.