Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

Wozniak's first personal computer the Apple I was similar to the Altair 8800 the first commercially available microcomputer except it had no provision for internal expansion cards. Post-Apple career
Wozniak founded a new venture called CL 9 which developed and brought the first programmable universal remote control to market in 1987. joining Ellen Hancock Gil Amelio Mike Connor and Wheels of Zeus co-founder Alex Fielding all Apple alumni in a new telecommunications venture.

) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Wozniak single-handedly invented both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s.