Woz, Jobs and ... Wayne? Apple's forgotten founder still wandering in the desert

Contra Costa Times ^ | June 3, 2010 | By Bruce Newman

[Michael.SF.]

The guy already hit the jackpot, but did not realize it.

[devane617]

Timing is everything.

[fishtank]

Pahrump.... one of Art Bell’s neighbors.....

[al baby]

Art Bell a very interesting character

[martin_fierro]

Hindsight is 20/20.

[glorgau]

The link seems to work better with one of the parms removed:

Woz, Jobs and ... Wayne? Apple's forgotten founder still wandering in the desert

[eXe]

Wow, I had no idea this guy lived in my town here (Pahrump NV), I even go to that casino once and a while.

[Red Badger]

iDesk?.................

[Star Traveler]

What if you owned 10% of the shares of Apple?

[glorgau]

BTW, few years ago I unloaded a couple thousand shares of Apple at $13.25, so I can sympathize. ;-)

[Dr. Sivana]

There was no such thing as a word processor yet. They were about to invent it.

The folks at IBM, AES and Wang might have something to say about that.

[whence911]

I remeber using Wang WP protocol to edit my first book. My secretary (term used in the 70s) entered all of the text into the system. I edited it manually and she did the edits into Wang. When we got MacWrite and then MSWord, the typing workload went dow for the office staff.

I wonder what year Wabg came out with WP. I was using it in 1978.

[GovernmentShrinker]

After Apple, he spent two years creating the model shop at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, then was chief engineer at Thor Electronics in Salinas for 16 years.

Wayne obviously made quite a few more mistakes after bailing out of Apple, if he's living month to month on Social Security after this employment history (and the stint at Atari before Apple).

[dangerdoc]

What a coulda/woulda story!

I’ve never been that close to success, I just work hard, put a little money away every payday and never gamble. It’s a little ironic that I’ll probably be in the same boat when Obama is done.

[Michael.SF.]

Wayne ... bailed out after 12 days.

12 days? I can imagine the conversation if Steve Job's was contacted:

SJ: Who? Ron Wayne?.................. Never heard of him.

[Swordmaker]

The Lost Apple Founder... Wayne... PING!

Apple Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Elle Bee]

He's the Pete Best (The Beatles original drummer) of computer nerds

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[pabianice]

A friend of mine, who is living on a small pension, turned-down the chance to be Badge # 9 at Digital Equipment Corporation in 1957. Bummer, man.

[itsahoot]

BTW, few years ago I unloaded a couple thousand shares of Apple at $13.25, so I can sympathize. ;-)

Dang I bought'em at $13.25 and sold at $111.00, sad but true story. We both would be rich if we had kept them.

[SunkenCiv]

“Afraid that Jobs’ wild spending and Woz’s recurrent ‘flights of fancy’ would cause Apple to flop, Wayne decided to abdicate his role as adult-in-chief and bailed out after 12 days.”

Twelve days? Wow, ADHD. No wonder I don’t remember hearing the name. Any mention of Markkula? He made the bullets and shot ‘em for years.