"Chris Hogg" wrote in message
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On Fri, 1 May 2015 08:13:58 +1000, "Simon Brown"
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"Chris Hogg" wrote in message
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:55:37 +1000, "Simon Brown"
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The only Wozniak that I'm aware of is Stephen Wozniak of Apple fame.
According to his Wiki entry, the only thing he's done with aircraft is
to crash one.

I didn't say his had anything to do with aircraft.

So you talk in riddles.

Everyone else understood what I meant there.

As I said, you are a smart-arse, and you have no
concept of what is meant by a serious breakthrough.

I didn't say his was a serious breakthrough, just
that he did what he did in his shed/garage.

Sure, your hero Wozniak

He isn't my hero. The Wright brothers aren't either.

was a smart guy, but he wasn't unique;

No one ever said he was unique, just that he did what
he did in his shed/garage, providing that the claim that
it isn't done by individuals in their sheds anymore is wrong.

there were plenty of clever people assembling chips,
sharing ideas and building microcomputers at that time*.

Never said otherwise.

There was nothing unique about him,

Never said there was.

or anything in the way of a serious breakthrough that any of them did.

Never said there was.

The serious breakthrough was the transistor
itself, which made everything else possible.

Having fun thrashing that straw man ?

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...onal_computers and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club