Steve Jobs

Ham radio in Steve Jobs interview
In an interview given in 1995, Steve Jobs talks about the influence of amateur radio in his life

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In 1995, Steve Jobs was on the cusp of middle age - 40 years old - when he sat down for an extensive and revealing one-on-one interview by the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation as part of an oral history project. The Foundation also produced the Computerworld Honors Program, whose executive director, Daniel Morrow, conducted this interview.

When Jobs sat down for this interview, which was recorded on videotape, his return to Apple was still two years away -- and his once and future company was struggling to remain relevant. The products that would turn Apple around in the first decade of the 21st century -- Mac OS X, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, the iTunes store -- did not exist.

In the ham radio segment at 5:40 into the interview Steve talks about his neighbor Larry Lang who was a radio amateur and recalls building Heathkits.

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Steve 'Woz' Wozniak WA6BND in Londonderry

Radio amateur Steve 'Woz' Wozniak WA6BND / WV6VLY visited Londonderry, the UK City of Culture 2013, to address the European Business Network (EBN) Congress.

Steve WA6BND co-founded Apple in the 1970's and it is now one of the worlds largest technology companies.

He got his Ham Radio license, WV6VLY, at the age of 10 and built his own ham radio. As he got older, he built more and more sophisticated computer projects. He said "It was all self-done; I didn't ever take a course, didn't ever buy a book on how to do it. Just pieced it together in my own head."

In an interview with the Belfast Telegraph he said he advocated creating an environment that allows creativity to flow.

"You need an environment, especially for engineers, where people have a lot of freedom to experiment and play with things that may not seem worth anything in terms of economic terms but which will create trains of thoughts and ideas."

"That's what young people do; they don't need money so they play with things and then accidentally stumble on the next big thing that could change our lives."

More than 500 delegates from 24 countries attended the high-profile event in Londonderry's Millennium Forum. The future belongs to the youth, Wozniak told the audience. "Young people start the big companies such as Apple and Google because they don't have the attachment to the old way of doing things".