Digibarn Events: Steve Wozniak visits the Digibarn
Discovery Channel Shoot and Tour
(Dec 14, 2006)

On December 14th, 2006 Apple computer co-founder Steve Wozniak visited Ancient Oaks Farm for an interview by the Discovery Channel and for his first ever tour of the Digibarn Computer Museum. This page has video, audio, and photos of this momentous occaision. We would like to thank the Discovery crew for making this happen and Woz for taking the trek over from Los Gatos on a wintry day and for his generosity of time.

Video of Woz' Tour of the DigiBarn (happened after the shoot)

Click here to play or view this piece larger on YouTube or at the DigiBarn Collection at Archive.org.

The Discovery Channel Shoot

Audio

Woz in the chair in the woods: archival audio at Digibarn Radio (52MB MP3 file) thanks Al Lundell

Woz on tour in the Digibarn: archival audio at Digibarn Radio (10MB MP3 file) thanks Al Lundell

Shoot in the Redwoods

Woz on his new gold Raz phone calling from.. the redwoods!	CIMG6396.JPG	HDTV camera setup
Discovery Channel crew get set to film	CIMG6399.JPG	CIMG6401.JPG
CIMG6402.JPG	Their crew and our parked cars	Interview happening, shhhh!
Woz in the lights	Woz in the redwood duff	CIMG6410.JPG
Interview seen from behind	CIMG6412.JPG	CIMG6413.JPG
CIMG6414.JPG	Lets get that shot by the redwood ring	CIMG6419.JPG
CIMG6420.JPG	Happy to be back in his old environment (Woz used to live up in these mountains)	Forest interview is done, coming down with Al Lundell
	Hey, what's that I see, an Altair 8800 sprouting from the forest floor, so thats where the microcomputer revolution began!

Walking Shoot

Walking set piece	Woz is handling the HP45 calculator, which he helped to design while working at HP in the early 70s	CIMG6438.JPG
CIMG6439.JPG	Another set piece, Woz with the Apple II	Oh, my first love!
Oh baby, its been so long!	CIMG6477.JPG	This is Mike Olson's donation of Apple Serial number 495
... complete with System Saver	CIMG6469.JPG	CIMG6470.JPG
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Shoot in the Barn

Now to the special area we set up in the Digibarn	Woz being filmed examing and commenting on artifacts...	... all with some meaning for him.
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Woz playing the original invitation to the 1982 Us Festival on the Apple IIe	Woz reading the invitation to the 1982 Us Festival	Woz meeting the Altair 8800
Woz working the switches on the Altair 8800	CIMG6457.JPG	CIMG6458.JPG

Woz on Tour

Woz Meeting Old Friends: Al Lundell describing work they did on the Us Festival (1982)

Woz and Alan Lundell	Alan sharing his scrapbook on the 1982 Us Festival with Woz	The dome multimedia theather Al helped build for Woz at the 1982 Us Festival
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Looking at slides of the 1982 Us Festival	CIMG6442.JPG

Tour of the Digibarn!

Woz in the Cray!

Woz and the Digibarn's Cray 1 Supercomputer	Woz in the Cray	Look at all these wires!!!
Woz and Digibarn Curator Bruce Damer	Al Lundell, Steve Wozniak, Bruce Damer in front of the Digibarn's Cray 1

Woz in the Display Rooms (Upstairs on the Tour)

Upstairs in the tour of the Xerox area by the Xerox Alto and PARC, Star and early Ethernet	CIMG6501.JPG	In the home computer area
Looking at the first Microsoft mouse	Watching Windows 1 booting (thanks Brad Blair for these shots)	CIMG6506.JPG
Showing Woz the Elixir Desktop T-Shirt (work of Bruce Damer while at Elixir in the 1980s)	Woz watching the Elixir system in action, he was impressed!	CIMG6509.JPG
	Woz explaining something (note the hands, he is a very gestural guy)

Woz in the Family Mac Room

Woz in the Family Mac room	CIMG6517.JPG	CIMG6515.JPG
See the Lisa Twiggy floppy, no it wasn't my idea!	Well, I actually suggested that we could develop our own drive	Oh the Brooklyn chips, they became the Apple IIx?
Vintage Computer Festival's Sellam Ismail and Steve Wozniak	Sellam gives Steve a book on programming the PDP-8

The New iMac 24 Inch arrives, Unpack a Mac!

	Arriving by Fedex just in time!
CIMG6480.JPG	Hey did you know that this is the co-founder of Apple?	Is that iMac for me?
CIMG6485.JPG	Getting the monolithic iMac out	CIMG6487.JPG
CIMG6488.JPG	CIMG6489.JPG	There she is!
Wow what a machine!!!	Woz could you sign right here?	OK!
Date..	...and place!	Woz wants one of those!
	Proud new Mac owner

The Woz Departs our Fair Valley (snif!)

CIMG6521.JPG	Goodbyes	Woz and his Prius Hybrid
what a great time!	please drive carefully!	and off he goes!
	our valley without Woz!

See Also

View more DigiBarn TV shorts

Also check out Digibarn Radio!