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computer for people. To all my HP friends, including Stan Mintz and Peter Dickinson, for a great environment in which an engineer could develop. Most of all, thanks to Allen Baum, who was involved in some way in so many of the big steps in my computer life. And for his parents who appreciated jokes and humor and had such good values in life. My memory of them still brings tears.

I must thank my first wife, Alice, without whom Apple would never have happened for me; Candi, my second wife, for the most wonderful creations of Jesse, Sara, and Gary; and my third wife, Suzanne, for Hard Rock Cafes and bungee jumping and for being so wonderful and decent.

Friends who made this possible for me, digging up needed photos and reminding me of stories, included Laura and Dan and Alex. Sharon was the most loyal in all cases, always looking out for me and making sure needed things got done.

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Gina thanks her friend Michele Earl for introducing her to Steve at a rock concert. Within a week of our meeting, the
iWoz
book proposal was in to our phenomenal agent, John Brockman.

Gina thanks the exceptional team at Norton, including editor Angela von der Lippe, her assistant, Lydia Fitzpatrick, and all the others who helped along the way. Thanks also to Keith Blate and David Street, Steve Wozniak fans and editors who spent much time reading the earliest drafts of this book.

Gina also wants to thank her wildly supportive family and friends, without whom this book could not have been completed: Tops on the list are her ever-patient husband, Henry, and their small son, Eric. Special thanks go to her beautiful and intrepid late mother, Emilia Sladjana Djuran Ferguson, for teaching her that, in America, it always pays not to be afraid to talk to the big shots! And to her father, David A. Malby of Riverdale, New York, Gina owes the highest thanks for his support, reading and writing suggestions, and encouragement through the years. Thanks

also to Gina's half-sister, Isabella, her husband, Roger, and Gina's much-loved nieces, Victoria and Alexandra. Thanks also to Maria Lopez and Gina's in-laws Lisa and Henry Schaefer for their babysitting support during this enormous project. And finally, Gina is forever grateful to those who have stood beside her the longest: Sister Laura Saucedo and Brother Keith Prewitt. Love and peace to you all.

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Steve and Gina both thank the two restaurants they dominated weekly while doing fifty-six two-hour interviews. The first half of the book was completed at Pearl's, in the West Portal District of San Francisco. The second was completed at The Hick'ry Pit in Campbell, California, where we especially thank our waitress Racquel and her boss, Brian, for bending the rules for us every now and then.

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Thank you, readers. We hope you enjoy Steve's adventure as much as he enjoyed telling it and Gina enjoyed hearing it!

Pictures

People used to go to Caltech games just to see my dad play. Here he is in uniform.
(Photograph courtesy of Margaret Wozniak)

Here's my mom and dad's wedding picture.
(Photograph courtesy of Margaret Wozniak)

They tell me I was reading at three.

(Photograph courtesy of Margaret Wozniak)

My dad and the three of us siblings. From left: me, Mark, and Leslie.
(Photograph courtesy of Margaret Wozniak)

Here I am at eleven, in Little League.
(Photograph courtesy of Margaret Wozniak)

At eleven, I was one of the youngest ham radio operators in the world. But I got bored. No one my age to talk to!
(Photograph courtesy of Margaret Wozniak)

Here I am at thirteen showing off my science-fair-winning Adder/Subtractor. 
(Photograph courtesy of Margaret Wozniak)

Here I am at thirteen in 1963, graduating from junior high.
(Photograph courtesy of Margaret Wozniak)

Here's Allen Baum and me (left) showing off our "Brazilian Best Wishes" banner, to shake things up at our old high school—then Steve Jobs'. Allen and I had graduated four years earlier.
(Photograph courtesy of Margaret Wozniak)