iWoz: How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way

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 scree...