Re: Need Help with PC Invention Research

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Steve Engels writes ...
> 
> 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.
>

     There is a Woz interview done by Charles T. "Dr. Tom" Turley which
may be helpful. It is titled:  Looking Back: Woz Tells: "How I Did It!"
and was published in the Summer issue of II Alive. You can find the text
of the interview in this newsgroup's FAQs at ...

ftp://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/2/apple2/Faqs .

Download file F005HISTORY.TXT .

 

Rubywand