Walking through computer history with Apple cofounder Woz at the Computer History Museum 

Imagine being a tour guide and Steve Wozniak just walks in asking for a tour.

Wozniak's life experiences, intelligence, and enthusiasm for tech is intoxicating.

Wow, thinking about how I used to punch up my Fortran programs on cards, bring them to the admin building, come back later in the day to pick up the printout of the results. No time for trial-and-error programming back in the day. Then I went on to college and had an assembly course in COMPASS, which was for the huge CDC mainframes. The school eventually learned not to let students use assembly on the same machine used to run the school. My minicomputer course had us enter our machine code programs via the toggle switches on the front panel of a PDP-8. What a pain that was with no storage either. After graduating I worked on a number of NCR minicomputers with those huge disk platters for storage. I then went on to a company that developed systems with Data General Nova's. I could go on, but I just love how Woz gets excited when he talks tech. It's a true passion he has which he always seemed to want to share with humanity. I've been to the Computer History Museum in Mountainview a few times and it's a blast to see even if you aren't a nerd. Thanks for posting this wonderful video of the pre-opening of the museum with a Woz walk about.

I love Steve Woz. He is simply someone who deserves our respect for his contribution to the Personal Computing space. And oh my, what a massive museum they have

We nerds live through workarounds, the Woz explains.

Brilliant. Wish we could get other computer legends to share their stories like this.

Steve Wozniak's dad worked at Lockheed...the rest is history.

Woz' enthusiasm and passion is so cool

Great video clip. I always love listening to the "Woz". Thanks for posting this.

A computer tour from woz, I'm in heaven

Great museum, and just the man to tell you about it.

Woz is one of the nicest people ever.

Love the CDC 6600. I remember seeing the same type of console display on a CDC Cyber 72 in the 1970s - they were *so* Science Fiction!!! :-)

That "hand grenade" calculator is amazing. Invented by a guy who was a prisoner of war, and who designed it in his mind. Genius. (Curt Herzstark) Curta calculator.

This was published in 2010 and only suggested to me in 2022. Wow! Thank you! That was very interesting!

When I went to junior high school we all learned how to do measurements on a slide rule. I have forgotten how to use one. My late friend Delmar P. Maroney who died a few years ago at 80, used to be an electronics tech in the Navy & later a computer scientist, kept his and still knew how to use his. At various times he owned a TI, Apple 2, Atari and various PCs.

Great to see this done. So many of his stories bring back memories.

I loved this place when I lived out there, wish I had gone a few more times, there's so much to see.

This is like if Henry Ford came through a time warp and appeared at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit and gave a tour.

This was superb! Thank you.

Wow!!!..Must visit this museum. Thanks for sharing this!

Woz is my lifetime inspiration!!!A true hero!!!

Fascinating insight from the Woz. You really feel like you were there. Cool museum too!

great tour! i was just there last week and wish we got such a tour

Woz is such a great man

Great video! Thanks for sharing. Love Woz.

thanx for the tour @Scobleizer.

awesome video !! was gr8 to get a tour though computer history by non other than the gr8 Woz !!!!

17:03 you're right, Steve - it is amazing when pioneers LIKE YOU build things with their own hands. 💙

He is my hero , i m from iran and have much respect for usa people and i love two apple's steve

I really enjoy it, thanks Robert for sharing !

Amazing thing to find out that Woz was a punch card hacker!

wow, thanks for the upload! Woz FTW!

Woz is the man i need to download his knowledge to my brain!

Great tour

Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Really enjoyed it.

The Great and Powerful Woz!!

I worked at DEC Corp Scotland and has always had a place in my heart. Hail DEC

this was awesome

Great Histology of Computing.

What a brilliant man he was... RIP Steve Wozniak.

All those cameras, but where's their footage? Thanks for uploading this Mr. Scoble.

I visited museum which was great, so many memories which I made ibm clone computers and the cost of memory and google is down the street. It’s all based on logic either or One or zero. Binary. Downey California

The Woz is one unbelievable engineer!

I gotta check this place out!

I bought my first computer in 1962 from Edmund Scientific Co. It was an analog computer, really an electrical slide rule, three potentiometers, a meter. and a switch. In 1969 I got some exposure to programming while working at Square Dog when one of my responsibilities was to enter some test data into an online system called IBM 360 Basic. While working for Doer Electric Co. their engineering dept. bought a 4 bit microcomputer intending to use it to develop a DC motor controller. When they got it they looked around for someone to assemble and test it so they had me take it home whence I got it set up & learned how to program it with toggle switches, the only output was a bank of LEDs. That was my introduction to machine language. In 1979 I went to work for IBM and happened to purchase an Apple II computer that same week because I just had to have one to calculate the orbit of Haley's comet arriving in just a few years but the first thing I did with it was to measure the speed of a .22 cal. bullet. I spent the next 20 years working as a Large Systems Customer Engineer. Computers have played a big role in my life. Woz has always been someone I admired very much and I would like very much to thank him for designing that gadget. That computer which was a store demonstrator I got for $1065 which I sold for $5000 two years ago. Did I make a killing? Introductory price $1,298 (equivalent to $5,800 in 2021). You decide, but I am happy.

This is really nice

Gotta love the WoZ.

Who doesn't love "Woz"?

Enjoyed visiting the museum in 2010 as part of my WWDC2010 tour. The DEC machines (PDP-8, ...) were easily the most influential in the building. DEC was responsible for expanding the Internet, better RISC chips, first great search engine, C, Unix, ... best command line OS.

Everything that Woz does is cool.

Love that "Your cheatsheets are on paper!" ;-)

Do not pay attention to the Altair 8800 behind the plastic!

Wow for Wozniak!

Woz is an icon

Thanks so much for the video. Is there a second part to this video?

precious simply awesome

I really want a foot mouse now.

6:03 explains it all...

You know what I like more than materialistic things? Knaaahledge!

The Woz=Genius!

Oh pity, it is missing the "Programma 101" by Olivetti.

Woz just breezed through the Cray-1 without saying much about it. Here’s a good story: When Seymour Cray heard that Apple bought a Cray computer to use to design their next computer, he said “that’s interesting - I’m using an Apple to design my next computer.” I spent a lot of time sitting at CDC consoles like the one at 13:50.

would like to meet woz one day

This is why RU-vid is so cool (when it is not censoring speech).

HP could've been the leader of the trillion dollar personal computing revolution - but instead they said 'no' five times.

Im sad I did not see this video in 2010

Anyone know what kind of watch Steve was wearing in this video... Time stamp 11:07

Cool! I ran across this old digital computer patent 3190554 that used air to compute instead electricity. Think a tech high school could make one using 3D printing and make it an exhibit in your Museum? Bet if Babbage had gone this way he could have had his Difference Engine made by the folks who made pipe organs.

I'd just like to thank whomever invited the scantron machine for allowing me to finally spell out how I felt about my science teacher. And whomever created Oregon Trail for giving me a reason to pair up with Danny V. In 4th grade

Old Buggs Bunny sometimes has a UNIVAC in it. I don't recall ever seeing an IBM. Didn't Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius use a UNIVAC? Oh yeah he did. Definitely the most important antique in that building.

Cool place

and... over here we have a machine that can play tic-tac-toe. it's called W.O.P.R which predates SkyNet by 26 years.

At 11:15: "... so you could have 5MB of data floating in a small space." LOL @ "small space"

Woz's Terminator story - @27:13

"i saw pong at a bowling alley". He builds a pong computer from chips and codes it to run on his tv.

Where is Zuse Z1 and Z3? ;-)

The Wizard Woz

shopkeepers still use abacus in the Midd1e East and in Ru$$ia.

Did I spy Fran Blanche in that tour group?!

Is Woz's accent typical Californian?

Searching on eBay for round screened cdc that came through my 1980s(!) Dell Latitude while trying to install Linux it divided its disk into CMS SGI Aix UNIX cray Vax that I'd no idea why except had rigged a wireless dongle(before there was wi fi) used IBM sys/390 in Linux apps fir cuda parallels and openMP fortran boost pp! Kept thinking where I knew this stuff from until I saw this purple museum assembly which is alike the Dells passage thru Linux to become cluster running supercomputer Zos developments!

His nostrils are scary huge 😮

This is an interesting museum, but it should be more accurately called "US Computer History Museum". There are no few examples shown here of European developments that were no less important.

So no reference to Bletchley Park's Bombes or Colossus. Not American I guess.

Steve plugging the iPhone there :P

i punched cards when i started , hated it.

Historical time science data collected transmission transfer. Museum of midern day marvel's

omg only 674 likes. seriously !!!! people are really not interested in history.

Interesting that Wozniak say intro to Computer Science was a graduate level course. This is why in high schools teachers still think programming a computer is a black art - and that you need to have advance mathematics skill. I disabused that teacher in my report for the class. Wasn't very charitable in what I wrote - but come on, you're teaching kids Excel and not showing them that you can do cell based formulas? Damnation." And my experience on keypunch was on an IBM 029. Hated that machine.

Woz: We keep asking, "Are we going to start building robots that are all of a sudden smarter than us and they take over?" Well, today's biggest robot - the biggest example of intelligence we have - is the internet. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now who do you ask? It starts with GO and it's not God.

this guy makes me nervous

Hahaha there are 1000's of men smarter than Woz, soon they will be gone😢😢😢.

Wozniak could not even get his first Apple to start up, which shows how weak his skills were. Sadly, Chuck Peddle came to Wozniak's home to help him fix his problems. Wozniak is a head-injured amnesiac (literally) who believes and repeats the myths that sprung up in his little cult of personality.

faker. millionaire. did some computer work when the market was new, become millionaire, and now pretends to actually love computers. this man loves money.

I dont think you get Mono from staying up to long.....

Steve Wozniak's dad worked at Lockheed...the rest is history.