For all that's already been written about the life of Steve Jobs, more and more new details keep surfacing.
In an excellent interview with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Dan Lyons (famous for his Fake Steve Jobs blog) pulls some interesting details from a man who has known Jobs almost his entire life.
Read on for 8 things we learned from it, then head over to Lyons's site to read the full interview for yourself.
When he was hired at Atari, Steve was so intense that they put him on the night shift by himself
"Steve saw [my design of] Pong and ran down to Atari and showed it to them and they hired him. Whether thought he had participated in the design, I don't know and I could not care less. They offered him a job and put him on the night shift. They said he doesn't get along with people very well, he's very independent minded. It rubbed against people. So they put him on the night shift alone."
Jobs and Wozniak used to sell "blue boxes," devices that hacked payphones and let you make free calls
"I didn't do it to make money but just to build a device to explore it, not to save money on phone calls. I was so honest I would not use the blue box to make long-distance calls. But I wanted to play pranks, like route signals around the world and make them come back to the phone next to me. We did prank calls. I would call a hotel in Paris and make a reservation. At the dorms in Berkeley we would go door-to-door selling blue boxes. One hundred and fifty bucks was the price."
Wozniak prank-called the Vatican and pretended to be Henry Kissinger
"We were doing a demo of a blue box in a dorm room. I called Italy, then asked for Rome, then asked for the Vatican. I told them I was Henry Kissinger calling from a summit meeting in Moscow. It was 5:30 in the morning in Italy. They told me to call back in an hour. I did, and I spoke to a bishop who said he had just spoken to Henry Kissinger in Moscow."
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