{"id":35066,"date":"2022-02-18T14:32:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T19:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35066"},"modified":"2022-02-18T14:32:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T19:32:21","slug":"randy-wigginton-answers-questions-on-quora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/18\/randy-wigginton-answers-questions-on-quora\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Wigginton Answers Questions on Quora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/profile\/Randy-Wigginton\/answers\/Apple-company\">Randy Wigginton<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loopinsight.com\/2021\/07\/06\/apples-first-software-engineer-randy-wigginton-answers-questions-on-apple\/\">Dave Mark<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/profile\/Randy-Wigginton\/answers\/Apple-company\"><p>I started attending  Homebrew Computer Club meetings.  Since I was unable to drive, I asked if anyone lived near me that could give me a lift to the meetings.  A really nice guy came up and said he lived close and could give me a ride.  I answered, &ldquo;Great!  What&rsquo;s your name?&rdquo;  His answer: &ldquo;Steve.  But my friends call me Woz&rdquo;.<\/p><p>In 1977, I joined Apple Computer as their first software engineer and employee #6.  While at Apple, I worked on many products, most notably Applesoft Basic, the Apple Disc Drive, and THE Spreadsheet.  Also I wrote MacWrite, the first WYSIWYG word processor, for the launch of the Macintosh in 1984.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/19\/first-macpaint-and-macwrite-public-demo\/\">First MacPaint and MacWrite Public Demo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/25\/working-with-woz\/\">Working With Woz<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Wigginton (via Dave Mark): I started attending Homebrew Computer Club meetings. Since I was unable to drive, I asked if anyone lived near me that could give me a lift to the meetings. A really nice guy came up and said he lived close and could give me a ride. I answered, &ldquo;Great! What&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-02-18T19:32:25Z","apple_news_api_id":"306cd0b6-e749-4da0-9401-3f59d8ad4a93","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-02-18T19:32:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AMGzQtudJTaCUAT9Z2K1Kkw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,406,732,295,30,301,173,779],"class_list":["post-35066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-appleii","tag-basic","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-macwrite","tag-stevejobs","tag-steve-wozniak"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35067,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35066\/revisions\/35067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}