Steve Wozniak

Today in Apple history: Steve Wozniak survives a plane crash

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The Woz tells it like it is.

February 7, 1981: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is involved in a serious plane crash in California, resulting in his first extended leave from the company. At the time, Wozniak flies a turbocharged, single-engine, six-seat Beechcraft Bonanza A36TC. On the plane with Woz are his fiancé Candi Clark, her brother and her brother’s girlfriend. Fortunately, no … Read more

Today in Apple history: Steve Wozniak is leaving Apple

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A lack of respect for the Apple II leads to Steve Wozniak

February 6, 1985: Co-founder Steve Wozniak, frustrated with Apple’s shifting priorities, leaves the company to pursue outside interests. His departure — which comes in the same year that Steve Jobs left Apple to create NeXT — marks another big change for the company. The move mostly stems from Woz’s dissatisfaction with the way management treated … Read more