Pendiri Apple Computer
Stephen Wozniak (Bahasa Polandia: Woźniak, nama panggilan (The) Woz atau Wizard of Woz) (lahir di San Jose, California, Amerika Serikat, 11 Agustus 1950; umur 59 tahun) adalah pendiri Apple Computer (dengan Steve Jobs). Ia dianggap sebagai pelopor dari masuknya komputer ke dalam kehidupan rumah pribadi. Walaupun kontribusinya hanya dalam bentuk kumpulan ide-ide jitu yang secara tidak sengaja bersamaan dengan siapnya teknologi untuk pembuatan komputer massal, kecerdasan dan kreatifitasnya yang tak terbatas membuat dia menjadi orang yang tepat untuk diakui sebagai pemrakarsa revolusi komputer pribadi.Sebelum Steve Wozniak bersama Steve Jobs mendirikan Apple, Steve Wozniak adalah seorang hacker. Kepandaian Steve Wozniak ini memang terlihat sejak dia masih kecil yang sangat gemar mengutak atik aljabar dan algoritma matematika. Kemampuan Steve Wozniak ini tentunya sangat berarti dalam mendongkrak hidupnya karena baik Steve Wozniak maupun Steve Jobs semasa SMA-nya tergolong orang orang dengan ekonomi menengah ke bawah.
Pada tahun 1975, Steve Wozniak bekerja di Hewlett-Packard dan membantu teman-Nya Steve Jobs mendesain video game untuk Atari. Dari keuntungan yang diperoleh, mereka menggunakannya untuk membeli sebuah computer yang sangat sederhana, salah satu produk dari Call Computer pimpinan Alex Kamradt untuk dipelajari mekanismenya. Setelah melihat wacana mengenai membangun terminal computer sendiri pada suatu majalah berjudul Popular Electronics terbitan tahun 1975, double steve tersebut merakit sendiri komputer dengan spare part yang ada. Computer Conversor yang dirakit tersebut terdiri dari 24 baris dan 40 kolom, hanya menggunakan huruf capital, menggunakan monitor berupa video teletype dan dapat terhubung dengan Call Computer. Alex Kamradt menanggapi positif hal ini dan bekerja sama dengan Steve Wozniak untuk menjual produk jadinya melalui firma dagang yang dimiliki Kamradt.
Pada tahun 1975, Wozniak mulai menghadiri pertemuan di Homebrew Computer Club. Pada pertemuan tersebut Microcomputers baru seperti Altair 8800 dan IMSAI menginspirasinya untuk menggunakan mikroprosesor ke dalam video teletype dan lengkaplah computer yang ia rancang.
Pada saat itu hanya tersedia microcomputer CPU Intel 8080 senilai US $ 179 dan Motorola 6800 yang dibandrol US $ 170. Saat itu Wozniak berniat bekerja sama dengan Motorola, namun saat itu masih belum menemukan kata sepakat karena range harga yang diminta baik Intel maupun Motorola saat itu jauh dari range budget mereka. Namun Wozniak tak menyerah. Ia melihat, mempelajari dan mendesain skema computer pada kertas. Dalam benaknya, membuat CPU hanyalah tinggal menunggu hari saja.
Ketika MOS Technology 6502 chip (sekarang baterai CMOS) dirilis dengan kisaran harga US $ 20 pada tahun 1976, Wozniak membuat program yang sesuai untuk chip tersebut dengan bahasa BASIC dan mulai mendesain computer yang mampu menjalankannya. MOS 6502 didesain oleh orang yang sama dengan orang yang membuat Motorola 6800, karena banyak pekerja di Silicon Valley yang mendirikan atau membuat usaha sendiri sebagai sampingan.Wozniak melakukan sedikit perubahan kecil agar chip baru tersebut dapat berjalan dengan baik. Wozniak menyempurnakan penemuaanya dan membawanya ke pertemuan Homebrew Computer Club sebagai show off.
Pada pertemuan tersebut, Wozniak bertemu teman lamanya Steven Jobs yang sama-sama tertarik terhadap potensi komersial dari hobi computer tersebut.
Founder of Apple Computer
Stephen Wozniak (Polish: Wozniak, nickname (The) Woz or Wizard of Woz) (born in San Jose, California, United States, August 11, 1950, age 59 years) was the founder of Apple Computer (Steve Jobs). He is regarded as a pioneer of the entry of computers into a private home life. Although it contributes only in the form of a collection of ideas sharpshooter who inadvertently unprepared in conjunction with computer technology for the manufacture of mass destruction, intelligence and boundless creativity made him the right person to be recognized as the initiators of the personal computer revolution.
Before Steve Wozniak founded Apple with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak was a hacker. Skill Steve Wozniak is indeed seen since she was a child who is very fond of work especial algebra and mathematical algorithms. Steve Wozniak capability is certainly very significant in boosting his life as both Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs during his high school belongs to the people with lower-middle economy.
In 1975, Steve Wozniak worked at Hewlett-Packard and helping his friend Steve Jobs design video games for Atari. Of the profits, they use it to buy a computer that is very simple, one product of the leadership of Alex Kamradt Call Computer to study the mechanism. After seeing the discourse on building your own computer terminal at a magazine called Popular Electronics published in 1975, double the steve assemble your own computer with a spare part available.Computer Conversor assembled consisted of 24 rows and 40 columns, using only capital letters, using a video monitor can be connected to the teletype and Call Computer. Alex Kamradt positive response to this and worked with Steve Wozniak to sell the finished product through a trading firm owned Kamradt.
In 1975, Wozniak started attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club. At the meeting the new Microcomputers such as the Altair 8800 and IMSAI inspired him to use a microprocessor to the computer and complete video teletype that he designed.
At that time the only available microcomputer CPU Intel 8080 of U.S. $ 179 and the 6800 is priced at $ 170. At that Wozniak intends to work with Motorola, but it was still not found a deal for the asking price range either Intel or Motorola at that time much of their budget range. But Wozniak did not give up. She saw, studying and designing computer scheme on paper. In his mind, making the CPU is only a matter of days.
When the MOS Technology 6502 chip (CMOS battery now) was released with a price range of U.S. $ 20 in 1976, Wozniak makes the program suitable for the chip with the BASIC language and began designing computer capable of running it. MOS 6502, designed by the same person who made the 6800, because many workers in Silicon Valley who set up or make their own business as sampingan.Wozniak do a bit of small change to the new chip can run well.Wozniak penemuaanya refine and bring it to the Homebrew Computer Club meeting as a show off.
At the meeting, Wozniak met his old friend Steven Jobs, who are equally interested in the commercial potential of the hobby that computer.
Stephen Wozniak (Polish: Wozniak, nickname (The) Woz or Wizard of Woz) (born in San Jose, California, United States, August 11, 1950, age 59 years) was the founder of Apple Computer (Steve Jobs). He is regarded as a pioneer of the entry of computers into a private home life. Although it contributes only in the form of a collection of ideas sharpshooter who inadvertently unprepared in conjunction with computer technology for the manufacture of mass destruction, intelligence and boundless creativity made him the right person to be recognized as the initiators of the personal computer revolution.
Before Steve Wozniak founded Apple with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak was a hacker. Skill Steve Wozniak is indeed seen since she was a child who is very fond of work especial algebra and mathematical algorithms. Steve Wozniak capability is certainly very significant in boosting his life as both Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs during his high school belongs to the people with lower-middle economy.
In 1975, Steve Wozniak worked at Hewlett-Packard and helping his friend Steve Jobs design video games for Atari. Of the profits, they use it to buy a computer that is very simple, one product of the leadership of Alex Kamradt Call Computer to study the mechanism. After seeing the discourse on building your own computer terminal at a magazine called Popular Electronics published in 1975, double the steve assemble your own computer with a spare part available.Computer Conversor assembled consisted of 24 rows and 40 columns, using only capital letters, using a video monitor can be connected to the teletype and Call Computer. Alex Kamradt positive response to this and worked with Steve Wozniak to sell the finished product through a trading firm owned Kamradt.
In 1975, Wozniak started attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club. At the meeting the new Microcomputers such as the Altair 8800 and IMSAI inspired him to use a microprocessor to the computer and complete video teletype that he designed.
At that time the only available microcomputer CPU Intel 8080 of U.S. $ 179 and the 6800 is priced at $ 170. At that Wozniak intends to work with Motorola, but it was still not found a deal for the asking price range either Intel or Motorola at that time much of their budget range. But Wozniak did not give up. She saw, studying and designing computer scheme on paper. In his mind, making the CPU is only a matter of days.
When the MOS Technology 6502 chip (CMOS battery now) was released with a price range of U.S. $ 20 in 1976, Wozniak makes the program suitable for the chip with the BASIC language and began designing computer capable of running it. MOS 6502, designed by the same person who made the 6800, because many workers in Silicon Valley who set up or make their own business as sampingan.Wozniak do a bit of small change to the new chip can run well.Wozniak penemuaanya refine and bring it to the Homebrew Computer Club meeting as a show off.
At the meeting, Wozniak met his old friend Steven Jobs, who are equally interested in the commercial potential of the hobby that computer.
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