Apple's lost founder: Jobs, Woz and Wayne
By Bruce Newman
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Posted: 06/02/2010 06:12:37 PM PDT
Updated: 06/03/2010 09:11:09 AM PDT
PAHRUMP, Nev. ? It's usually past midnight when Ron Wayne, co-founder of Apple ? colossus of the tech world, and Silicon Valley's most adored franchise ? leaves his home here and heads into town. Averting his eyes from a boneyard of abandoned mobile homes, he drives past Terrible's Lakeside Casino & RV Park, then makes a left at the massage parlor built in the shape of a castle.
When he arrives at that night's casino of choice, Wayne makes a beeline for the penny slot machines. If it's the middle of the month and he has just cashed his Social Security check, he will keep battling the one-armed bandits until 2 a.m. Wayne is waiting to hit the jackpot, and he is long overdue.
If Ron Wayne, now 76, weren't one of the most luckless men in the history of Silicon Valley, it wouldn't have turned out like this.
He was present at the birth of cool on April Fool's Day, 1976: Co-founder ? along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak ? of the Apple Computer Inc., Wayne designed the company's original logo, wrote the manual for the Apple I computer, and drafted the fledgling company's partnership agreement.
That agreement gave him a 10 percent ownership stake in Apple, a position that would be worth about $22 billion today if Wayne had held onto it.
But he didn't.
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[email protected]
Posted: 06/02/2010 06:12:37 PM PDT
Updated: 06/03/2010 09:11:09 AM PDT
PAHRUMP, Nev. ? It's usually past midnight when Ron Wayne, co-founder of Apple ? colossus of the tech world, and Silicon Valley's most adored franchise ? leaves his home here and heads into town. Averting his eyes from a boneyard of abandoned mobile homes, he drives past Terrible's Lakeside Casino & RV Park, then makes a left at the massage parlor built in the shape of a castle.
When he arrives at that night's casino of choice, Wayne makes a beeline for the penny slot machines. If it's the middle of the month and he has just cashed his Social Security check, he will keep battling the one-armed bandits until 2 a.m. Wayne is waiting to hit the jackpot, and he is long overdue.
If Ron Wayne, now 76, weren't one of the most luckless men in the history of Silicon Valley, it wouldn't have turned out like this.
He was present at the birth of cool on April Fool's Day, 1976: Co-founder ? along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak ? of the Apple Computer Inc., Wayne designed the company's original logo, wrote the manual for the Apple I computer, and drafted the fledgling company's partnership agreement.
That agreement gave him a 10 percent ownership stake in Apple, a position that would be worth about $22 billion today if Wayne had held onto it.
But he didn't.
continued:
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15214122
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