Steve Wozniak wrote in his autobiography that he lived on the 2nd floor of Unit 3 Norton Hall at UC Berkeley -- which is the same floor I lived on (many years later).
Well, from the NY Times obit it's apparent that Steve Jobs visited there for a key moment in he and Wozniak's life
From the NY Times obit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/business/steve-jobs-of-apple-dies-at-56.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
Well, from the NY Times obit it's apparent that Steve Jobs visited there for a key moment in he and Wozniak's life
From the NY Times obit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/business/steve-jobs-of-apple-dies-at-56.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
Quote:
The spark that ignited their partnership was provided by Mr. Wozniak's mother. Mr. Wozniak had graduated from high school and enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, when she sent him an article from the October 1971 issue of Esquire magazine. The article, "Secrets of the Little Blue Box," by Ron Rosenbaum, detailed an underground hobbyist culture of young men known as phone phreaks who were illicitly exploring the nation's phone system.
Mr. Wozniak shared the article with Mr. Jobs, and the two set out to track down an elusive figure identified in the article as Captain Crunch. The man had taken the name from his discovery that a whistle that came in boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal was tuned to a frequency that made it possible to make free long-distance calls simply by blowing the whistle next to a phone handset.
Captain Crunch was John Draper, a former Air Force electronic technician, and finding him took several weeks. Learning that the two young hobbyists were searching for him, Mr. Draper appeared one day in Mr. Wozniak's Berkeley dormitory room. Mr. Jobs, who was still in high school, had traveled to Berkeley for the meeting. When Mr. Draper arrived, he entered the room saying simply, "It is I!"
Based on information they gleaned from Mr. Draper, Mr. Wozniak and Mr. Jobs later collaborated on building and selling blue boxes, devices that were widely used for making free and illegal phone calls. They raised a total of $6,000 from the effort.
