IWoz: computer geek to cult icon : how I invented the personal computer, co-founded Apple, and had fun doing it

Every engineer—and certainly every engineering student—should read this book….It is, in a nutshell, the engineer's manifesto. -- _Guy Kawasaki, author of _The Macintosh Way

Everyone should enjoy Woz's very personal and engaging story….What a wild ride! -- _Ray Kurzweil, inventor and author of _Singularity Is Near

Worth waiting for…adds intriguing new information to the history of the origins of the personal computer revolution. -- _Alan Deutschman, author of _The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.

Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I, a widely affordable machine that anyone could understand and figure out how to use.

Wozniak's life—before and after Apple—is a "home-brew" mix of brilliant discovery and adventure, as an engineer, a concert promoter, a fifth-grade teacher, a philanthropist, and an irrepressible prankster. From the invention of the first personal computer to the rise of Apple as an industry giant, iWoz presents a no-holds-barred, rollicking, firsthand account of the humanist inventor who ignited the computer revolution. 16 pages of illustrations.