ULTRA RARE 1984 Steve Wozniak Apple Computer Audio Cassette Tape - "Making Apple & Doing Pranks" (OMSI / AEA Chapter)
Item Specifics
• Brand/Organization: Apple Employees Association (A.E.A.)
• Subject: Steve Wozniak (Co-founder of Apple Computer)
• Date of Recording: June 21, 1984
• Location: Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in Portland, Oregon
• Format: Audio Cassette Tape
• Condition: Excellent Vintage Condition. Fully tested, heard, and verified content.
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United StatesItem
Description
An extraordinary piece of computing ephemera and Apple history.
Up for sale is an incredibly scarce, original 1984 regional corporate chapter audio cassette capturing an intimate, 1-hour-plus talk by Steve Wozniak titled "MAKING APPLE & DOING PRANKS."
This historic address was delivered exclusively to members of the Apple Employees Association (A.E.A.) at OMSI on June 21, 1984. Given the internal corporate distribution of these regional A.E.A. chapters, very few of these cassettes were ever produced, and surviving physical copies are virtually nonexistent in the wild. This exact speech is a documented piece of tech history, sharing its footprint with the official indexing records of the Computer History Museum (CHM) Catalog under item ID 102742813.
Audio Content Includes:
• The Introduction: Hosted and introduced by former HP manager Stan Mintz.
• The "Computer Abuse" Days: Wozniak recounting his early school/college probation for consuming excess computing time.
• The TV Jammer Prank: A detailed, hilarious breakdown of how Wozniak engineered an electronic TV jammer to trick his college dorm mates.
• The Birth of Apple: First-hand technical recollections of engineering the Apple I and Apple II, alongside his passion for the Homebrew Computer Club.
A.E.A at OMSI, June 21, 1984.
00:15 Introduction : Stan Mintz, former HP Mgr
09:40 On probation for computer abuse
11:35 Pranks : Fun with a TV jammer!
15:45 The first computer : Switches & lights
16:55 Meets Steve Jobs and tries blue boxes
21:30 Watching Captain Crunch cracxk ARPAnet
25:10 Silicon Valley Home Brew Computer Club
32:50 HP declines to build the Apple I design
41:10 Delivering the first Apple I computers
43:15 Designing the Apple II computer
47:50 Thinking of Apple II as a real product
56:00 Disk controller design
71:30 Where did the name Apple come from?
Condition Report
The tape is in fantastic physical condition with sharp, clear typography on the original text labels. The clear cassette housing runs smoothly. Includes its original clear plastic case.
Shipping & Handling
Will be shipped with extreme care using heavily padded bubble wrap and a rigid box. Shipped via fully insured tracking. Signature confirmation required upon delivery.
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