Wozniak in '84: Apple II a product that could sell 'thousands a month'

A hearty bravo to Vince Patton, the entreprising fellow who this week published long-lost video of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak telling tales about the company to the Denver Apple Pi computer club at the Colorado School of Mines way back in 1984.

The footage -- on VHS tape, naturally -- was saved by Patton's father; Patton turned around and digitized it for our enjoyment. And what a find it was.

In this example, Woz discusses the early days of Apple as a company -- one that knew it had a hit product on its hands but still needed the financing ($250,000, to be precise) to make it happen (not to mention the stomach to quit a job at Hewlett-Packard and go all in).

There are many more:

• ...on his flight to the venue
• ...on computers in 1975
• ...on paper tapes as programming media
• ...on the first "personal" computers
• ...on Steve Jobs and Atari
• ...on designing for simplicity
• ...on high school
• ...on 8-bit computers
• ...on Jobs' famous 'blue boxes'
• ...on expandable memory
• ...on sharing information
• ...on being rejected by Hewlett-Packard (three times!)
• ...on losing money

Indeed, there are more still; Patton split the 90-minute presentation into 23 videos. To walk down memory lane, watch them here.