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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

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

Walking Shoot

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

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

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

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Woz and Alan Lundell
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Alan sharing his scrapbook on the
1982 Us Festival with Woz
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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
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Tour of the Digibarn!

Woz in the Cray!

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

Woz in the Display Rooms (Upstairs on the Tour)

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

Woz in the Family Mac Room

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

The New iMac 24 Inch arrives, Unpack a Mac!

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

The Woz Departs our Fair Valley (snif!)

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

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