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US Festival '83 Wrap-Up: Woz's (Big) Apple Bash

Ethlie Ann Vare, Progressive Media, July 1983

CONSIDERING THAT Stephen Wozniak lost $4 million putting on the first US Festival it's something of a mystery why he would even want to do a second one. The inventor of the Apple computer called the bath he took last year "pocket change", but it's not the sort of change one can stand to lose more than once. What motivated him to put up an estimated $18 million to, yet again, try the impossible: recreate Woodstock?

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