Difference between revisions of "Robert Scoble"
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| − | Scoble grew up in Silicon Valley. His father was an engineer at Ampex and Lockheed Martin. His mother worked for [[Apple Inc]] as a member of a group of women who built Apple IIs at home. Robert learned how to solder a motherboard together when he was 11 and helped his mother build several hundred Apple IIs. | + | Scoble grew up in Silicon Valley. His father was an engineer at Ampex and Lockheed Martin. His mother worked for [[Apple Inc]] as a member of a group of women who built Apple IIs at home. Robert learned how to solder a motherboard together when he was 11, and helped his mother build several hundred Apple IIs. |
He studied journalism at West Valley Community College and San Jose State. In 1989 he persuaded [[Steve Wozniak]] to donate $40,000 worth of Macintoshes to the WVCC journalism department, and then took responsibility for setting them all up. At that time he was a Mac Evangelist, fond of installing beta software and performing weird hacks on other people's old Apple computers to improve their performance. | He studied journalism at West Valley Community College and San Jose State. In 1989 he persuaded [[Steve Wozniak]] to donate $40,000 worth of Macintoshes to the WVCC journalism department, and then took responsibility for setting them all up. At that time he was a Mac Evangelist, fond of installing beta software and performing weird hacks on other people's old Apple computers to improve their performance. | ||
