COMPUTERS

DAVID LEAVITT, University of Florida Professor, March 3, 2006
CZIKOWSKY: Did (Alan) Turing have any interaction with the people who developed ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania?
LEAVITT: Although Turing had no specific involvement in the design of the ENIAC, his ideas are reflected in the contributions of John Von Neumann. The machine was, on a philosophical level, very remote from Turing’s ideal in that it relied too much, in his words, on “screwdriver interference”. He did meet some of the ENIAC people on a trip to the States.

STEVE WOZNIAK, Apple Computers co-founder, November 21, 2006
CZIKOWSKY: As I am sure your painfully know, the only real money the Beatles made with the Apple Records was the money they received from Apple Computers because they had the name Apple first. How did you come up with the name Apple, and are you still glad you did?
WOZNIAK: I picked Steve Jobs up at the San Francisco airport and he said that he had a name for our company, Apple Computer. My first comment back to him was that there was already Apple Records (biggest thing in records at the time). Steve said they were a record company and we were a computer company and that was good enough for me. We were in our young 20’s and a bit naïve and a bit inexperienced and a bit risk-taking then. Thank heavens!