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My question is this: What do you think of your photo being hoisted up, looming high over route 280 on the side of the Apple building? I was surprised when they took the iMac down and put you up. It's a great photo. I'm also curious to know what you think of the "Think Different" campaign, and what kinds of talks, if any, took place between you and Apple to have your photo used for the ad. ...Woz's Reply

Atari and Breakout, The Real Story
My name is Bill Hunter, and I run a website called "The Dot Eaters", which chronicles (or tries to, anyway) the history of videogames. I'm currently refining the entry I have for Breakout, and I was wondering if you might be able to confirm a couple of questions I have about this game and yours and Mr. Job's connection to it and Atari. For instance, there is a tale that while you assembled the hardware for the game, you only received 350 dollars for your efforts while Steve pocketed a cool $5000 or so. And it is also believed that when you first saw Atari's PONG, the first successful arcade videogame, you immediately built your own version that would put "OH SH*T" (asterix mine) up on the screen when the ball was missed.
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Woz at King Sized Tetris
Woz has always liked Tetris. He was even playing it during last years Superbowl. So we knew he couldn't resist this one. When he found out about the building sized Tetris game at Brown University in Providence Rhode Island, he had to see it. And play it. See photos of Woz at the game. Before you ask, sorry, I don't know what his score was. His high on the normal sized Tetris is 710,000.
(courtesy of Macrumors.com and Brown's Techhouse Dorm.)

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