I’ve been passing some of my windshield time by listening to the Steve Jobs audiobook. In fact, I’ve been pretty engrossed, and have been supplementing with documentaries on Apple Macintosh, Jobs, and his other endeavors like NeXT and Pixar. In a Smithsonian interview, Jobs talks about some of the many innovations that came out of the Bay Area in the last several decades, i.e. the integrated circuit, the microprocessor, networking, and genetic engineering to name a few. It was his community that bolstered that innovation. In the biography, Job’s neighborhood, where the first Apple computer was built, is described as being full of outgoing and helpful Hewlett Packard and ex-military engineers. When the Apple-1 was first debuted, it was to… Read More »Techbench: Hackerspace Beginnings