How the hell do you print your own money?

[Frank]

I don't get this. Is it he is leaving it to the interpretation of the seller to decide whether they want to accept it? How the heck can this be legal? Woz might be able get away with it, but some schmuck with no bucks would end up on all kinds of trouble I'm sure.



Found this in the comments. If its true, its a pretty funny stunt.

" I found an article Steve wrote about this here: woz.org/letters/general/78.htm*l - he didn't tell the full story in the video, he made it seem like his friend printed the actual bills for him. What he actually does is buy the bills in sheet form from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing which will sell legal sheets of uncut currency, then he has a friend turn them into pads, so the bills are legal. He just left out part of the story."

[8mpg]

it has to have something to do with $2 bills not being made anymore and its some 100 year old law that he is adhering to

[BP]

It's called being very wealthy and wanting people to pay attention to you. If Bill Gates or Steve Jobs walks into a store everyone will freak out, if Wozniak walks in though most people would confuse him with Kevin Smith.

[jakesford]

Lol he is just fucking around with people. You can/could buy sheets of un-cut $2 bills, Woz bought some of those sheets, and made a pad out of real currency.

edit** didn't see the part under the video

[barronj]

I went to a nationwide company's annual conference a long, long time ago (jeez, like 20 years ago?), and they handed out (as awards) $13,000 in $2 bills that were in $100 pads. You could just peal off what you wanted to spend. It was neat (I was 18). I thought it was so neat, I collected $350 to give to a friend, who was doing the clutch on my 89 GT, to pay him for the work (he was replacing the clutch while i was out of town). Without flinching, he told me to take my ass to the bank & come back with something else.