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Title: Steve Woz
Post by: i3oilermaker on Thu, 29 May 2014, 23:01:16

Met the Steve Woz tonight at a fund raiser dinner and gave him 3 of my business cards (Digital, Metal, and Plastic)  I only got to talk to him for a minute or two but it is abundantly clear what a nice, down to earth good guy he is.  He told me how cool he thought the digital card was, signed my Poker II keyboard, and we shook hands.




I'm such a nerd


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Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: bueller on Thu, 29 May 2014, 23:02:37
YOU MET WOZ!?! I hate you.
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: nuclearsandwich on Thu, 29 May 2014, 23:03:47
He is indeed super pretty nice. It never occurred to me to ask him to sign a keyboard. Noted for the future.
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: ideus on Thu, 29 May 2014, 23:03:54
Wow, an actual history icon in your presence. Coolnes, now your board worth an small fortune.
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: anoxy on Thu, 29 May 2014, 23:09:43
I spy Lily set
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: infiniti on Thu, 29 May 2014, 23:16:37
Cool man! :thumb:
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: digi on Thu, 29 May 2014, 23:19:49
wow dude, way cool  :cool: :cool:
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: n0rvig on Thu, 29 May 2014, 23:25:30
Whoa! Awesome
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: rowdy on Fri, 30 May 2014, 00:04:02
Excellent - grats!

I bet he loved the digital business card - it's the kind of hardware tinkering he is famous for,
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: lightsout714 on Fri, 30 May 2014, 00:58:29
So you brought your keyboard with you to be autographed? Or you happened to have it and said wth? Just curious.
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: RabRhee on Fri, 30 May 2014, 06:25:37
So you brought your keyboard with you to be autographed? Or you happened to have it and said wth? Just curious.

You mean you go places without your keyboard?


Great meeting the Woz, cool guy, true legend.
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 30 May 2014, 06:28:24
I hope he ends up coming to geekhack....OR.....maybe he's already lurking :o

Did you invite him to keycon?  :thumb:
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: agodinhost on Fri, 30 May 2014, 06:29:29
I hate you!
GOSH
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: osi on Fri, 30 May 2014, 07:07:20
Very nice sir!
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 30 May 2014, 08:28:20
Did you invite him to keycon?  :thumb:

What do you think Project Ravello is, hmmm? ;)
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: CPTBadAss on Fri, 30 May 2014, 08:30:00
We're going to learn how to solder the TechKeys business card with Steve Wozniak? But...I wanted delicious pasta :(
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: lightsout714 on Fri, 30 May 2014, 09:25:10
So you brought your keyboard with you to be autographed? Or you happened to have it and said wth? Just curious.

You mean you go places without your keyboard?


Great meeting the Woz, cool guy, true legend.

Haha I guess I'm slippin.
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: Flyersfan1 on Fri, 30 May 2014, 09:25:15
That is so cool!! I really like Woz, i always thought it was neat how he would wait in line with people before the launch of Iphone's and Ipad's.
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: keymaster on Fri, 30 May 2014, 09:28:37
I didn't know who that guy is until now, but that's pretty cool. There aren't that many famous people who it would be appropriate to have him sign a keyboard, but the co-founder of Apple is one of them. :cool:
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: i3oilermaker on Fri, 30 May 2014, 09:56:34
So you brought your keyboard with you to be autographed? Or you happened to have it and said wth? Just curious.

I saw him speak at an event, so I brought it with the hope that I would meet him.

I did tweet him this:  https://twitter.com/TechKeysUS/statuses/472221957803352066 hoping maybe he would grace us with his presence!
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: snoopy on Fri, 30 May 2014, 10:49:23
You should have brought a m0110 or something like that :)
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: pichu23 on Fri, 30 May 2014, 10:50:19
Whatttttt. I'm mad jelly. :( did he leak any apple secrets to you? Lol
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: jwaz on Fri, 30 May 2014, 10:57:28
clear coat that, now!
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: HPE1000 on Fri, 30 May 2014, 11:02:30
clear coat that, now!
Exactly. My first thought was "well, he can't use that keyboard anymore" XD

Awesome i3oilermaker  :thumb:
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: agodinhost on Fri, 30 May 2014, 11:13:19
I didn't know who that guy is until now, but that's pretty cool. There aren't that many famous people who it would be appropriate to have him sign a keyboard, but the co-founder of Apple is one of them. :cool:
Really?
How old are you Sir?
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 30 May 2014, 11:20:49
You guys should read this book. It's a fun read.

http://amzn.com/0393330435

(http://i.imgur.com/4r8dwZ6.jpg)
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: keymaster on Fri, 30 May 2014, 19:36:59
I didn't know who that guy is until now, but that's pretty cool. There aren't that many famous people who it would be appropriate to have him sign a keyboard, but the co-founder of Apple is one of them. :cool:
Really?
How old are you Sir?

I'm not into apple products, sorry.  :))
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: smknjoe on Fri, 30 May 2014, 19:44:30
Really cool, man. Congratulations.

I didn't know who that guy is until now, but that's pretty cool. There aren't that many famous people who it would be appropriate to have him sign a keyboard, but the co-founder of Apple is one of them. :cool:
Really?
How old are you Sir?

I'm not into apple products, sorry.  :))

He invented the first successful and practical PC. Pretty much completely by himself. The other Steve was the business side, Woz was the inventor.
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: keymaster on Fri, 30 May 2014, 20:02:18
Really cool, man. Congratulations.

I didn't know who that guy is until now, but that's pretty cool. There aren't that many famous people who it would be appropriate to have him sign a keyboard, but the co-founder of Apple is one of them. :cool:
Really?
How old are you Sir?

I'm not into apple products, sorry.  :))

He invented the first successful and practical PC. Pretty much completely by himself. The other Steve was the business side, Woz was the inventor.

That's quite interesting. Tesla was a real genius, yet history only remembers Edison.
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: smknjoe on Fri, 30 May 2014, 20:13:33
Really cool, man. Congratulations.

I didn't know who that guy is until now, but that's pretty cool. There aren't that many famous people who it would be appropriate to have him sign a keyboard, but the co-founder of Apple is one of them. :cool:
Really?
How old are you Sir?

I'm not into apple products, sorry.  :))

He invented the first successful and practical PC. Pretty much completely by himself. The other Steve was the business side, Woz was the inventor.

That's quite interesting. Tesla was a real genius, yet history only remembers Edison.

...excellent example...
Title: Steve Woz
Post by: riotonthebay on Fri, 30 May 2014, 20:56:29
My Woz story:

During college I was in an airport heading somewhere for a competition with a friend. I spotted someone familiar out of the corner of my eye, and turned to see Woz about to get on an elevator to go up to one of those Delta members lounges or whatever.

He was maybe 100ft away, so I yelled out, "Hey, Steve!" He turned around, and I said, "Wish me luck!" and gave him a thumbs up. He returned the thumbs up, yelled "Good luck," and got in his elevator.

I won the competition.
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: lightsout714 on Fri, 30 May 2014, 21:52:12
My Woz story:

During college I was in an airport heading somewhere for a competition with a friend. I spotted someone familiar out of the corner of my eye, and turned to see Woz about to get on an elevator to go up to one of those Delta members lounges or whatever.

He was maybe 100ft away, so I yelled out, "Hey, Steve!" He turned around, and I said, "Wish me luck!" and gave him a thumbs up. He returned the thumbs up, yelled "Good luck," and got in his elevator.

I won the competition.

lol cool story. Do we get to know what you were competing in?
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: riotonthebay on Sat, 31 May 2014, 04:25:58

My Woz story:

During college I was in an airport heading somewhere for a competition with a friend. I spotted someone familiar out of the corner of my eye, and turned to see Woz about to get on an elevator to go up to one of those Delta members lounges or whatever.

He was maybe 100ft away, so I yelled out, "Hey, Steve!" He turned around, and I said, "Wish me luck!" and gave him a thumbs up. He returned the thumbs up, yelled "Good luck," and got in his elevator.

I won the competition.

lol cool story. Do we get to know what you were competing in?

Sure. It was basically a business plan competition.
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: lightsout714 on Sat, 31 May 2014, 13:52:33

My Woz story:

During college I was in an airport heading somewhere for a competition with a friend. I spotted someone familiar out of the corner of my eye, and turned to see Woz about to get on an elevator to go up to one of those Delta members lounges or whatever.

He was maybe 100ft away, so I yelled out, "Hey, Steve!" He turned around, and I said, "Wish me luck!" and gave him a thumbs up. He returned the thumbs up, yelled "Good luck," and got in his elevator.

I won the competition.

lol cool story. Do we get to know what you were competing in?

Sure. It was basically a business plan competition.

Oh sweet.
Title: Re: Steve Woz
Post by: Findecanor on Sat, 31 May 2014, 19:53:54
He invented the first successful and practical PC. Pretty much completely by himself. The other Steve was the business side, Woz was the inventor.
He also engineered the ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) interface used for Apple keyboards and mice until they switched to USB in the first iMac in '98.