What ever happened to Woz?

From: Hotze <photze_at_batelco.com.bh>
Date: Wed Mar 25 14:23:27 1998

I tried that before. I get the following error:
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So, anyone...?
    Ciao,
Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Seth J. Morabito <sethm_at_loomcom.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: What ever happened to Woz?
>>
>> Ok... there's this technicial genius, he makes what very well may be the
two
>> key foundations necessary for IBM to make a PC for Compaq to clone it,
for
>> Unix to serve it, to make the Internet to share it... BUT WHAT THE ^*%_at_
>> HAPPENED TO HIM?
>>     I've got a faint notation that he got involved in Be, what ever that
is.
>> It seems like an OS, I remember hearing that it was getting ported to
Intel
>> platforms... what happend to him?  Why isn't he like... at Apple, where
he
>> belongs doing innovation?
>>     Thanks,
>
>All your questions, and more, can be answered at:
>
>http://www.woz.org/  (no kidding!)
>
>He's teaching 5th grade now.  He's doing what every great person who
>achieves tremendous wealth should, in my humble opinion, be doing: Giving
>up the crazy game and going off to enjoy life :)  More power to him.
>
>BTW, _definitely_ not on-topic and I apologize for that, but Be is
>indeed an OS company, and it's gaining quite a following, although I
>don't believe Wozniak has ever had anything to do with them.  You may
>be thinking of the CEO, Jean-Louis Gassee, who was an... "interesting"
>figure at Apple for quite some time.  More answers can be had at
>http://www.be.com/  (amazingly enough).
>
>-Seth (Be Developer #3048)

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