Subject: Re: Need Help with PC Invention Research
From: d_obenauf@mindspring.com (Rayna Obenauf)
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 1998 1k39(H EDT
Message-id: <3019c2fc.2022909@news.mindspring.com>

Yea, I worked with Woz's dad (much later) and a couple of my friends
hung out in the homebrew computer club. There was none of that stuff
going on, or if there was, no one realized it. They were just a couple
of brighter than average kids who were interested in the latest
developments in microelectronics. They just tried to get something to
work that no one had ever done before. Woz's dad thought at the time
that nothing would ever come of it, that they would be really lucky if
anything ever worked, and basically thought they were wasting their
time. (This was before it worked). My buddies were hacking at the bit
level with 6502's and 8008's, wishing that they could afford to hack
with an Altiar. I was in high school at the time.

On Thu, 09 Jul 1998 06:52:01 GMT, saengels@engmail.uwaterloo.ca (Steve
Engels) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm doing a research project on the creative processes at work in 
>technological innovation, and I was wondering if somebody out there could help 
>me in my search for historical data.
>
>I was wondering whether anybody knows what mental processes were at work when 
>the Apple was first created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. More 
>specifically, I'm interested in finding out whether anybody know of any 
>analogy reasoning, visual imagery, hypothesis techniques, abductive reasoning 
>or any other mental strategies that were used in their invention of the Apple. 
>
>Alternatively, if anybody knows how I can get in contact with Steve Jobs or 
>Steve Wozniak (although I fully appreciate how unlikely this would be) that 
>would also be ideal.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>Steve Engels
>
>4A Computer Engineering
>University of Waterloo,
>Waterloo, Canada