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		<title>Steve Wozniak On Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell [Apple]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<em>During last week's <a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/iphone4">iPhone leak saga</a>, <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #stevewozniak" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/stevewozniak/">Steve Wozniak</a>, co-founder of Apple, reached out to us with a story: The morning of the iPad launch, an engineer showed Woz an iPad for two minutes. For this he was fired.</em>				<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5523673/steve-wozniak-on-apple-security-employee-termination-and-gray-powell" title="Click here to read more about Steve Wozniak On Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell [Apple]">More&#160;&#187;</a>
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<p>				<em>During last week&#8217;s <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fiphone4&sref=rss">iPhone leak saga</a>, <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #stevewozniak" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #stevewozniak" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fstevewozniak%2F&sref=rss">Steve Wozniak</a>, co-founder of Apple, reached out to us with a story: The morning of the iPad launch, an engineer showed Woz an iPad for two minutes. For this he was fired.</em>				<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5523673%2Fsteve-wozniak-on-apple-security-employee-termination-and-gray-powell&sref=rss" title="Click here to read more about Steve Wozniak On Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell [Apple]">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a><br />
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		<title>CES: Woz: Google&#8217;s Nexus One is my favorite gadget</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                    Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak tells a news station that Google's new phone is his favorite gadget, though he contacts the station later to say he also has two iPhones. <p>Originally posted at <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10435979-71.html" class="origPostedBlog">Technically Incorrect</a></p>
                                
                        
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		<title>OMGWTF! Woz likes the Nexus One!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/woz.jpg"/>So you're the dude who co-created Apple. You don't really have a formal role at Apple anymore and you just kind of hang out with cool people and talk about Apple a lot and, in the McDonald Land of Apple, you're kind of like the goofy, lovable Grimace to Steve Jobs' maniacal and dangerous Mayor McCheese. So you talk to a local NBC affiliate and make an off-hand remark about liking the Nexus One. What do you think happens next?

Splashy headlines! "Apple Cofounder Confesses: He Loves the Google Phone!" Wild subheads! "Steve Wozniak admits he's jumped to Google's ship!" The belief that general approval and usage of competing technology equates to varletism! Efforts by a mainstream news organization to stir up fanboy in hopes of gaining traffic!]]></description>
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<p>So you&#8217;re the dude who co-created Apple. You don&#8217;t really have a formal role at Apple anymore and you just kind of hang out with cool people and talk about Apple a lot and, in the McDonald Land of Apple, you&#8217;re kind of like the goofy, lovable Grimace to Steve Jobs&#8217; maniacal and dangerous Mayor McCheese. So you talk to a local NBC affiliate and make an off-hand remark about liking the Nexus One. What do you think happens next?</p>
<p>Splashy headlines! &#8220;Apple Cofounder Confesses: He Loves the Google Phone!&#8221; Wild subheads! &#8220;Steve Wozniak admits he&#8217;s jumped to Google&#8217;s ship!&#8221; The belief that general approval and usage of competing technology equates to varletism! Efforts by a mainstream news organization to stir up fanboy in hopes of gaining traffic!<br />
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Well, all of that worked and how. Because <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcbayarea.com%2Fnews%2Ftech%2FWozniaks-Shocking-Admission-Hes-a-Google-Lover-81358352.html&sref=rss">Woz said, and this is the quote:</a> </p>
<blockquote><p>Wozniak made his latest revelation with a coy laugh and without actually speaking the Google device&#8217;s name. Instead, when asked what his favorite gadget is, Wozniak said, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s the latest one. It&#8217;s a non-Apple product, but it&#8217;s a gadget that just came out yesterday.&#8221;</p>
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<p>He is a traitor to the cause. He must be liquidated. His refusal to shower unyielding praise on his former company is tantamount to high treason. Or maybe NBC Bay Area could cover more pressing stuff, like California&#8217;s budget crisis or the wars going on or earthquakes around the world. Oh well. Woz sells. </p>
<p>That said, they basically got what they wanted. Sadly, Steve Wozniak could say that dogs are great pets and all cat-loving Windows users would throw bricks through his window. Why not milk that division?</p>
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<p>Anyone who knows tech knows certain names&#8212;Gates, Jobs, Woz, Kamen, Stringer&#8212;but before they became legends, they were busy doing, well, some <em>curious</em> stuff. Here's a glance at their lives circa 1979:</p>

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<strong><a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged STEVE JOBS" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/steve-jobs/">Steve Jobs</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Just returning to daily work at Apple after a prolonged health scare, he's still one of the most powerful&#8212;and recognizable&#8212;names in the industry.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: This was the year Steve started work on the Lisa, but also the year he became kind of a square. This happened in stages: he bought his first house; began his lifelong Mercedes habit; trimmed his hippie mop; bought some suits; and became a father&#8212;at least as far as the courts were concerned&#8212;to his daughter, Lisa Nicole. Sellout. [<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5301470/the-life-of-steve-jobs-+-so-far/gallery/?selectedImage=14">Source</a>]<br />
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<strong><a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged BILL GATES" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/bill-gates/">Bill Gates</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Having stepped back from a day-to-day role at Microsoft, Bill now dedicates most of his time to his <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5019597/giz-explains-how-the-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-will-save-the-world">giant philanthropic foundation</a>. For many, he's still the voice of Microsoft&#8212;a perception he seems to appreciate.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: Still in his mid 20s, Bill Gates the businessman was busy rebranding his company from Micro-Soft to Microsoft, and moving operations from Albuquerque to the state of Washington, where they would stay from there on out. Bill Gates the nerd, on the other hand, was solving the so-called "Pancake Problem," publishing a paper on it&#8212;his only academic work. Apparently, <em>n</em> being the number of pancakes in a stack, (5<em>n</em> + 5)/3 flips will always be enough to sort them into a desired order. Why? I have no idea, but it's probably got something to do with me not being a genius billionaire. [<a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/7697/title/Math_Trek__Pancake_Sorting">Science News</a>]<br />
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<strong><a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged STEVE WOZNIAK" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/steve-wozniak/">Steve Wozniak</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Sometimes he's <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5095603/woz-really-does-everything-on-his-segway">Segging</a>, sometime's he's <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5199199/was-steve-wozniak-unfairly-eliminated-from-dancing-with-the-stars">dancing</a>, sometimes he's even <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5306520/my-most-memorable-gadgets-by-steve-wozniak">Giz-ing</a>. In any case since distancing himself from Apple, he's been doing whatever the hell he wants.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: He had begun work on the Lisa, which would later be passed to other engineers. But outside of work, he was diversifying his portfolio. Before he was a voluntary spokesperson for <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged DEAN KAMEN" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/dean-kamen/">Dean Kamen</a>'s Segway, he was a paid spokesperson for Datsun, featuring in a TV commercial for the 1979 280zx in which he drops such memorable elocutions as "I prefer the Z!" and "IT. IS. AWESOME." It is, Steve. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9RX0mBZ0HA">It is.</a><br />
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<strong>Steve Ballmer</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: At Microsoft, he's the dude. He basically runs the show, filling Billy G's old shoes, as it were. In any case, he's at his peak.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: Fresh out of college, Steve hadn't even joined Microsoft yet. It wasn't until 1980 that he even pitched the company, who later gave him a job, then a few more jobs, then THE job. A distinguished student at Harvard, he had lofty dreams, which led him to LA, where he tried to make it in Hollywood. (Behind the scenes, of course.) His bid for fame, or at least, profit made from others' fame, didn't pan out, so he went back to school at Stanford. In an alternate universe, Ari Gold's character in <em>Entourage</em> is based on Steve. [<a href="http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19980125&#38;slug=2730718">Seattle Times</a>]<br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/michaeldell.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /><br />
<strong>Michael Dell</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Michael Dell helms the second largest PC manufacturer in the world, and is currently trying to navigate a difficult economy and a precipitous drop in some of his core businesses.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: Baby Dell has was just getting a taste of his two lifelong passions: computing and cash. He got his first machine, an Apple II of all things, in 1979 at the age of 14, and promptly tore it apart. Soon after, he tried his hand at entrepreneurship, hawking newspaper subscriptions to newlyweds, whose information he scrounged from public records. This quickly made him a thousandaire. [<a href="http://www.entrepreneurslife.com/thoughts/entry/dell-marketing-strategies/">Source</a>]<br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/howardstringer.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /><br />
<strong>Sir <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged HOWARD STRINGER" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/howard-stringer/">Howard Stringer</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Currently serving as the <a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/howard-stringer">Emperor of all things Sony</a>, Stringer is hoping to overhaul the company's lumbering, inefficient structure into something a little more streamlined, a little more manageable, and a lot more profitable.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: Our Howard, not yet a Sir, was killing network news. In 1979 he was working for CBS, and in 1980 presided over wide staff cuts at the network, mainly in the news department. Apparently, this gutted the network, dragging it down in the ratings races to this day. Not an auspicious start as far as restructurings go, but Sony's a totally different animal, I guess. Right? [<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/business/worldbusiness/07stringer.html?_r=1">NYT</a>]<br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/hp_02.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /><br />
<strong><a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged BILL HEWLETT" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/bill-hewlett/">Bill Hewlett</a> and <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged DAVID PACKARD" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/david-packard/">David Packard</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Passed away, so R.I.P.. But, when they were less dead, they founded what would become the largest PC manufacturer in the world, and drove innovation in personal computing, printing and computer science for years.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: As loads of exciting innovations were swirling around them, courtesy of people who were more or less children, Bill and David were in the twilight of their respective careers. David had returned to HP after a stint in Richard Nixon's Defense Department, where he became an expert in weapons procurement. Half-employed by HP and still advising the government from time to time, he could be seen wandering the halls of the company, doing odd jobs and making new employees kind of sad. By this time, Bill Hewlett had stepped down as CEO, though he and David still featured in some <a href="http://www.hpmemory.org/wb_pages/wall_b_page_08.htm">seriously rad company literature</a> from time to time. [<a href="http://www.hp.com/retiree/history/founders/packard/touch.html">HP</a>, <a href="//books.google.co.uk/books?id=FUmmMGE0IJ0C&#38;pg=PA139&#38;lpg=PA139&#38;dq=%22dave+packard%22+nixon+department+of+defense+weapons&#38;source=bl&#38;ots=xXUS_9d19T&#38;sig=lhyWnSWGP1Hwzy-BX09SNnM5FeU&#38;hl=en&#38;ei=nhVeSsj7A9WrjAeMysXSDQ&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=book_result&#38;ct=result&#38;resnum=1">Ralph Sanders</a>, <a href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/11/1121_famous_partnerships/image/6_bill_dave.jpg">Image from BusinessWeek</a>]<br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/07/504x_googleguys.jpg" class="left image500" width="500"/><br />
<strong>The Google Guys</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page run the internet, to put it bluntly. Google's got the most popular search engine, a wide range of successful web services, and a lion's share of the online advertising market. They might have even made the OS on your phone.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: This is where Silicon Valley exec age disparities start to get funny. In 1979, Eric Schmidt was on his way to becoming a respectable adult, heading into a PhD program at Berkeley. Meanwhile, Sergey was emigrating from the Soviet Union. With his parents, of course, since he was only six. While Schmidt was churning out a dissertation over in Oakland, Sergey and Larry were building block castles at Montessori schools. Tech-savvy PhD candidates take note: Those kids at the Waldorf Academy down the street? They might be your bosses someday. I mean, don't worry, you'll be filthy rich. But still. [<a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/360/000058186/">NNDB</a>, <a href="http://www.thejc.com/articles/sergey-brin-google-revolutionary">The JC</a>]<br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/deamkamen.jpg" class="left image160" width="160" /><br />
<strong>Dean Kamen</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Though he hasn't birthed truly high profile invention since the Segway, Kamen is still doing some really cool stuff, be it designing <a href="http://gizmodo.com/370698/colbert-first-vid-of-dean-kamens-miracle-water-distiller">water purification systems</a>, <a href="http://gizmodo.com/394072/all-things-d-dean-kamen-on-his-mind+controlled-cyborg-luke-arm">bionic arms for vets</a>, or rock-climbing wheelchairs. Or hanging out on his own <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5104016/dean-kamens-private-island-is-now-entirely-off-the-grid">private island</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: In 1979, Dean was running from the tax man! Sort of. Having failed to graduate from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Dean had jumped headfirst into a new project called the "Auto-Syringe," which would later be known as the first insulin pump. After his project gained traction, he moved from Massachusetts to New Hampshire for tax reasons, and promptly got rich. [<a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.09/kamen_pr.html">Wired</a>]</p>
<p><i><a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/gizmodo-79/">Gizmodo '79</a> is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age gave way to the digital, and most of our favorite toys were just being born.</i></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anyone who knows tech knows certain names&mdash;Gates, Jobs, Woz, Kamen, Stringer&mdash;but before they became legends, they were busy doing, well, some <em>curious</em> stuff. Here&#8217;s a glance at their lives circa 1979:</p>
<p><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/stevejobs1.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /><br />
<strong><a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged STEVE JOBS" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fsteve-jobs%2F&sref=rss">Steve Jobs</a></strong></p>
<p><iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http://digg.com/people/When_Tech_Gods_Were_Mortal_Men" align="right" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"></iframe><strong>Now</strong>: Just returning to daily work at Apple after a prolonged health scare, he&#8217;s still one of the most powerful&mdash;and recognizable&mdash;names in the industry.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: This was the year Steve started work on the Lisa, but also the year he became kind of a square. This happened in stages: he bought his first house; began his lifelong Mercedes habit; trimmed his hippie mop; bought some suits; and became a father&mdash;at least as far as the courts were concerned&mdash;to his daughter, Lisa Nicole. Sellout. [<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5301470%2Fthe-life-of-steve-jobs-%2B-so-far%2Fgallery%2F%3FselectedImage%3D14&sref=rss">Source</a>]<br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/billgates.jpg" class="left image160" width="160" /><br />
<strong><a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged BILL GATES" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fbill-gates%2F&sref=rss">Bill Gates</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Having stepped back from a day-to-day role at Microsoft, Bill now dedicates most of his time to his <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5019597%2Fgiz-explains-how-the-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-will-save-the-world&sref=rss">giant philanthropic foundation</a>. For many, he&#8217;s still the voice of Microsoft&mdash;a perception he seems to appreciate.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: Still in his mid 20s, Bill Gates the businessman was busy rebranding his company from Micro-Soft to Microsoft, and moving operations from Albuquerque to the state of Washington, where they would stay from there on out. Bill Gates the nerd, on the other hand, was solving the so-called &#8220;Pancake Problem,&#8221; publishing a paper on it&mdash;his only academic work. Apparently, <em>n</em> being the number of pancakes in a stack, (5<em>n</em> + 5)/3 flips will always be enough to sort them into a desired order. Why? I have no idea, but it&#8217;s probably got something to do with me not being a genius billionaire. [<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencenews.org%2Fview%2Fgeneric%2Fid%2F7697%2Ftitle%2FMath_Trek__Pancake_Sorting&sref=rss">Science News</a>]<br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/woz.jpg" class="left image160" width="160" /><br />
<strong><a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged STEVE WOZNIAK" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fsteve-wozniak%2F&sref=rss">Steve Wozniak</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Sometimes he&#8217;s <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5095603%2Fwoz-really-does-everything-on-his-segway&sref=rss">Segging</a>, sometime&#8217;s he&#8217;s <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5199199%2Fwas-steve-wozniak-unfairly-eliminated-from-dancing-with-the-stars&sref=rss">dancing</a>, sometimes he&#8217;s even <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5306520%2Fmy-most-memorable-gadgets-by-steve-wozniak&sref=rss">Giz-ing</a>. In any case since distancing himself from Apple, he&#8217;s been doing whatever the hell he wants.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: He had begun work on the Lisa, which would later be passed to other engineers. But outside of work, he was diversifying his portfolio. Before he was a voluntary spokesperson for <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged DEAN KAMEN" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fdean-kamen%2F&sref=rss">Dean Kamen</a>&#8216;s Segway, he was a paid spokesperson for Datsun, featuring in a TV commercial for the 1979 280zx in which he drops such memorable elocutions as &#8220;I prefer the Z!&#8221; and &#8220;IT. IS. AWESOME.&#8221; It is, Steve. <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dl9RX0mBZ0HA&sref=rss">It is.</a><br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/steve-ballmer.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /><br />
<strong>Steve Ballmer</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: At Microsoft, he&#8217;s the dude. He basically runs the show, filling Billy G&#8217;s old shoes, as it were. In any case, he&#8217;s at his peak.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: Fresh out of college, Steve hadn&#8217;t even joined Microsoft yet. It wasn&#8217;t until 1980 that he even pitched the company, who later gave him a job, then a few more jobs, then THE job. A distinguished student at Harvard, he had lofty dreams, which led him to LA, where he tried to make it in Hollywood. (Behind the scenes, of course.) His bid for fame, or at least, profit made from others&#8217; fame, didn&#8217;t pan out, so he went back to school at Stanford. In an alternate universe, Ari Gold&#8217;s character in <em>Entourage</em> is based on Steve. [<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.seattletimes.nwsource.com%2Farchive%2F%3Fdate%3D19980125%26%23038%3Bslug%3D2730718&sref=rss">Seattle Times</a>]<br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/michaeldell.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /><br />
<strong>Michael Dell</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Michael Dell helms the second largest PC manufacturer in the world, and is currently trying to navigate a difficult economy and a precipitous drop in some of his core businesses.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: Baby Dell has was just getting a taste of his two lifelong passions: computing and cash. He got his first machine, an Apple II of all things, in 1979 at the age of 14, and promptly tore it apart. Soon after, he tried his hand at entrepreneurship, hawking newspaper subscriptions to newlyweds, whose information he scrounged from public records. This quickly made him a thousandaire. [<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.entrepreneurslife.com%2Fthoughts%2Fentry%2Fdell-marketing-strategies%2F&sref=rss">Source</a>]<br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/howardstringer.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /><br />
<strong>Sir <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged HOWARD STRINGER" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fhoward-stringer%2F&sref=rss">Howard Stringer</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Currently serving as the <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fhoward-stringer&sref=rss">Emperor of all things Sony</a>, Stringer is hoping to overhaul the company&#8217;s lumbering, inefficient structure into something a little more streamlined, a little more manageable, and a lot more profitable.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: Our Howard, not yet a Sir, was killing network news. In 1979 he was working for CBS, and in 1980 presided over wide staff cuts at the network, mainly in the news department. Apparently, this gutted the network, dragging it down in the ratings races to this day. Not an auspicious start as far as restructurings go, but Sony&#8217;s a totally different animal, I guess. Right? [<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2005%2F03%2F07%2Fbusiness%2Fworldbusiness%2F07stringer.html%3F_r%3D1&sref=rss">NYT</a>]<br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/hp_02.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /><br />
<strong><a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged BILL HEWLETT" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fbill-hewlett%2F&sref=rss">Bill Hewlett</a> and <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged DAVID PACKARD" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fdavid-packard%2F&sref=rss">David Packard</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Passed away, so R.I.P.. But, when they were less dead, they founded what would become the largest PC manufacturer in the world, and drove innovation in personal computing, printing and computer science for years.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: As loads of exciting innovations were swirling around them, courtesy of people who were more or less children, Bill and David were in the twilight of their respective careers. David had returned to HP after a stint in Richard Nixon&#8217;s Defense Department, where he became an expert in weapons procurement. Half-employed by HP and still advising the government from time to time, he could be seen wandering the halls of the company, doing odd jobs and making new employees kind of sad. By this time, Bill Hewlett had stepped down as CEO, though he and David still featured in some <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hpmemory.org%2Fwb_pages%2Fwall_b_page_08.htm&sref=rss">seriously rad company literature</a> from time to time. [<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hp.com%2Fretiree%2Fhistory%2Ffounders%2Fpackard%2Ftouch.html&sref=rss">HP</a>, <a href="%20http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FUmmMGE0IJ0C&#038;pg=PA139&#038;lpg=PA139&#038;dq=%22dave+packard%22+nixon+department+of+defense+weapons&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=xXUS_9d19T&#038;sig=lhyWnSWGP1Hwzy-BX09SNnM5FeU&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=nhVeSsj7A9WrjAeMysXSDQ&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;ct=result&#038;resnum=1">Ralph Sanders</a>, <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.businessweek.com%2Fss%2F08%2F11%2F1121_famous_partnerships%2Fimage%2F6_bill_dave.jpg&sref=rss">Image from BusinessWeek</a>]<br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/07/504x_googleguys.jpg" class="left image500" width="500"/><br />
<strong>The Google Guys</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page run the internet, to put it bluntly. Google&#8217;s got the most popular search engine, a wide range of successful web services, and a lion&#8217;s share of the online advertising market. They might have even made the OS on your phone.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: This is where Silicon Valley exec age disparities start to get funny. In 1979, Eric Schmidt was on his way to becoming a respectable adult, heading into a PhD program at Berkeley. Meanwhile, Sergey was emigrating from the Soviet Union. With his parents, of course, since he was only six. While Schmidt was churning out a dissertation over in Oakland, Sergey and Larry were building block castles at Montessori schools. Tech-savvy PhD candidates take note: Those kids at the Waldorf Academy down the street? They might be your bosses someday. I mean, don&#8217;t worry, you&#8217;ll be filthy rich. But still. [<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nndb.com%2Fpeople%2F360%2F000058186%2F&sref=rss">NNDB</a>, <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thejc.com%2Farticles%2Fsergey-brin-google-revolutionary&sref=rss">The JC</a>]<br />
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/deamkamen.jpg" class="left image160" width="160" /><br />
<strong>Dean Kamen</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now</strong>: Though he hasn&#8217;t birthed truly high profile invention since the Segway, Kamen is still doing some really cool stuff, be it designing <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F370698%2Fcolbert-first-vid-of-dean-kamens-miracle-water-distiller&sref=rss">water purification systems</a>, <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F394072%2Fall-things-d-dean-kamen-on-his-mind%2Bcontrolled-cyborg-luke-arm&sref=rss">bionic arms for vets</a>, or rock-climbing wheelchairs. Or hanging out on his own <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5104016%2Fdean-kamens-private-island-is-now-entirely-off-the-grid&sref=rss">private island</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Then</strong>: In 1979, Dean was running from the tax man! Sort of. Having failed to graduate from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Dean had jumped headfirst into a new project called the &#8220;Auto-Syringe,&#8221; which would later be known as the first insulin pump. After his project gained traction, he moved from Massachusetts to New Hampshire for tax reasons, and promptly got rich. [<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fwired%2Farchive%2F8.09%2Fkamen_pr.html&sref=rss">Wired</a>]</p>
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<p>OK...meaningful...here goes...</p>
<p>For that definition, it was probably an electronics learning kit I got for Christmas at about age 8 or 9. As I recall, it didn't teach electronics formulas or resistor codes, but was full of projects to hook up input devices like switches and output devices like buzzers and lights. It was like learning how to connect all the devices to your hi-fi, or connecting all your peripherals to a computer. It also gave me a good start toward understanding logic rules, like both switches have to be on for the light to shine, or if switch A is on, then switch B selects which light is on.</p>
<p>I call this one the most meaningful, because, pretty clearly to me, it preceded my other important gadgets and inspired me to like gadgets and to understand how to build some. It's like how the transistor led to the chip, which led to microprocessors, which led to personal computers. Everything goes back to the first invention, in that sense. This electronics kit gave me the understanding that made it easy to progress to large logic devices with multi-pole switches, and some relays, which then progressed to a large tic-tac-toe computer with transistors which progressed to a large adding/subtracting machine with transistors, etc.</p>
<p>The word 'meaningful' has the root 'meaning' which implies some emotion. In that sense, my first transistor radio, at about age 10, would fit the bill. It gave me portable music that I could listen to all night long as I slept, every night. 20 years later came the walkman, and 20 more years later came the iPod, but the real change in life, the one having the most 'meaning', was with the transistor radio.</p>
<p>I always wanted my own computer. With the Apple I, I now had a machine that I could program. I would never run out of things to do in my entire life. So it's a close runner up to the other two.</p>
<p>The gadget that has been the most attractive of attention ever is not my Segway. It's my nixie tube watch from CathodeCorner. It looks very large to other people and looks very strange. It's handmade in America too. The nixie tubes run on 140 volts on your wrist. Airport security guards who have seen every kind of watch ever made have a thrilling time with this watch.</p>
<p>I used to fly to Japan regularly to scour new gadgets, and always bought tons of things which were always surprising at the time, but looking back, few have special meaning. The first consumer digital camera, I think the Mavica technology, was meaningful. The first one for computers, not TV's, was the QuickTake from Apple. But in many ways, no digital camera to this day has been as good as the first Ricoh one.</p>
<p>The HP-35 calculator was also very meaningful in my life, as it led me to an incredible job designing for the follow-on models.</p>
<p><i>Much thanks to Woz for helping to kick off our series. Coming up soon: Phil Torrone, gadget maker and modder extraordinare.</i></p>
<p><i>Image credit: <a href="http://www.digicamhistory.com/Sony%20Mav%2081%20sep.html">Sony Mav</a>, <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_otfwl2zc6Qc/ShX5MJ_W2pI/AAAAAAAAKKE/1kFR8LumuVc/s400/hp35calculator.jpg">HP Calculator</a></i></p>
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<p>OK&#8230;meaningful&#8230;here goes&#8230;</p>
<p>For that definition, it was probably an electronics learning kit I got for Christmas at about age 8 or 9. As I recall, it didn&#8217;t teach electronics formulas or resistor codes, but was full of projects to hook up input devices like switches and output devices like buzzers and lights. It was like learning how to connect all the devices to your hi-fi, or connecting all your peripherals to a computer. It also gave me a good start toward understanding logic rules, like both switches have to be on for the light to shine, or if switch A is on, then switch B selects which light is on.</p>
<p>I call this one the most meaningful, because, pretty clearly to me, it preceded my other important gadgets and inspired me to like gadgets and to understand how to build some. It&#8217;s like how the transistor led to the chip, which led to microprocessors, which led to personal computers. Everything goes back to the first invention, in that sense. This electronics kit gave me the understanding that made it easy to progress to large logic devices with multi-pole switches, and some relays, which then progressed to a large tic-tac-toe computer with transistors which progressed to a large adding/subtracting machine with transistors, etc.</p>
<p>The word &#8216;meaningful&#8217; has the root &#8216;meaning&#8217; which implies some emotion. In that sense, my first transistor radio, at about age 10, would fit the bill. It gave me portable music that I could listen to all night long as I slept, every night. 20 years later came the walkman, and 20 more years later came the iPod, but the real change in life, the one having the most &#8216;meaning&#8217;, was with the transistor radio.</p>
<p>I always wanted my own computer. With the Apple I, I now had a machine that I could program. I would never run out of things to do in my entire life. So it&#8217;s a close runner up to the other two.</p>
<p>The gadget that has been the most attractive of attention ever is not my Segway. It&#8217;s my nixie tube watch from CathodeCorner. It looks very large to other people and looks very strange. It&#8217;s handmade in America too. The nixie tubes run on 140 volts on your wrist. Airport security guards who have seen every kind of watch ever made have a thrilling time with this watch.</p>
<p>I used to fly to Japan regularly to scour new gadgets, and always bought tons of things which were always surprising at the time, but looking back, few have special meaning. The first consumer digital camera, I think the Mavica technology, was meaningful. The first one for computers, not TV&#8217;s, was the QuickTake from Apple. But in many ways, no digital camera to this day has been as good as the first Ricoh one.</p>
<p>The HP-35 calculator was also very meaningful in my life, as it led me to an incredible job designing for the follow-on models.</p>
<p><i>Much thanks to Woz for helping to kick off our series. Coming up soon: Phil Torrone, gadget maker and modder extraordinare.</i></p>
<p><i>Image credit: <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digicamhistory.com%2FSony%2520Mav%252081%2520sep.html&sref=rss">Sony Mav</a>, <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_otfwl2zc6Qc%2FShX5MJ_W2pI%2FAAAAAAAAKKE%2F1kFR8LumuVc%2Fs400%2Fhp35calculator.jpg&sref=rss">HP Calculator</a></i></p>

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