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I was obsessed with early Apple in the late 90’s and emailed Woz one night on a whim. He wrote me back a few hours later. Such a wonderful guy.
I hope this is nothing serious.
Ha! I used to email Woz and Jobs all the time as a kid. They'd both respond! It was wild!
Woz is a truly nice guy. I wish him all the best.
If you read Isaacson's biography of Jobs, both Steves got started in the fledgling industry by doing exactly that; sending letters and showing up at the offices of established people in the industry and just asking them for stuff. I think that's how Jobs got his first gig at Atari, if i remember correctly.
Very cool that both of them, who benefitted so much from reaching out personally, decided to pay it forward when they became titans themselves.
Jobs got an internship at HP by just looking up Bill Hewlett in the phone book, calling him up, and asking for some spare parts for a project he was working on.