As a young Steve Jobs was in National Geographic
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Photo of a young Steve Jobs, you can see above, there was the new exhibition of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC - "American Cool". Cult of Mac I do not miss the opportunity to communicate Charles O'Rirom who took this picture back in 1981.
Now he is 73 years. O'Rir recalls that Jobs seemed closed and withdrawn, but despite his young age (he was then was only 27), producing the impression of inexplicable human, it is simply impossible to ignore.
"We then heard about it very little. For the same project, I photographed people like David Packard and Bill Hewlett of Hewlett-Packard, Bill Noyce of Intel - they were much more famous than Steve. But since Steve was nonconformist reputation, we could not add it to the collection of "
This was the first year in Apple kahonors of a public company - December 12, 1980 its stock went public at a price of $ 22.
O'Rir recalls a meeting with Jobs was invited to "a small office building, it seems, somewhere in Mountain View"
"I photographed for National Geographic, my job was to take pictures for a story about Siliknovoy Valley. I lived not far from it, can a hundred miles, and I was well familiar with this area. Besides, I was interested in electronics and I even had a computer Radio Shack TRS-80, with which I made my photo captions. I am well suited for the job "
O'Rir was struck by the age of Jobs, his determination and vigor. He insisted that he was photographed... on his motorcycle BMW R60 / February 1966. Without a helmet, of course.
I asked him where he wanted to take a photo and he said: "Every day I go to work on the bike, so it and be photographed"
An article entitled "High-tech, high-stakes and high society Silicon Valley" was published in the October issue of National Geographic for 1982.
Despite the fact that the photo Jobs modestly arranged laterally from the text, this article contains some interesting facts about the early years of Apple:
Steve Jobs is pleased to computers falling prices. He hopes that his computer one day become Volkswagen'om its industry - "National Computer", which will be available to each family. 27-year-old co-founder of Apple Computer, whose with a typewriter-sized device designed to finally introduce our computers everyday life, however, indignantly said: "We believe that Apple - it's more personal than your home computer!" 1981 and 1982 were "Years of personal computer" - giants such as IBM rapidly entered the market and is used today in the United States for more than 2 million computers. But predictions about what is already in the early 80's the heart of every home, "computerized", still proved to be premature.
"It's no more difficult than learning how to cook, but people are afraid that they will not work", - says another resident of Silicon Valley, Dan Filstra whose software VisiCorp software can be easily used houses. all the machines still not "friendly". Laboratories across the valley occupied by the voice recognition research, but we are still incredibly far from entering the market computer, which could communicate with you as a real person - to achieve maximum user-friendliness in relation to the user.
Jobs and his growing army of competitors turned their energies to the introduction of technology in the office. But Apple has inspired a cult enthusiasts who invent new applications for computer - one engineer Apple computer is programmed so that the motor includes a small rocking cradle of his busy child. actually he became a role model for Jobs himself to a new generation of talented young people who are creating the machine and program, will enjoy the same success, which was once a familiar football team of senior school.
Over a cup of herbal tea in a vegetarian restaurant Jobs explained to me: "For us, computers have always been close. That's what makes us different from you - you were born "before the birth of the computer." All the matter in this place, I was born here. When I was 14 I was tormented by the question here of a prominent engineer of computers. Apple emerged from the microprocessors that were made here in the Valley, five miles from this restaurant "
Passion that Jobs gave to the cause, it has paid off. Together with Steve Wozniak, he collected their first Apple computer in 1976... in the garage of his parents in Los Altos, because they could not afford to buy their own computer. Apple Computer today is worth 100 million dollars, its revenue increased by 81% over the year. The company already occupies 22 buildings in Silicon Valley and plants in Texas, Singapore, Ireland, which, incidentally, has all chances to become the Silicon Valley of Europe.
Despite the fact that the photograph Jobs manages a luxury motorcycle, success seems to be in no way affected the pioneer of the computer age. Dressed in the usual T-shirt and jeans, he said one of his friend, still prefers "rushed on his motorcycle to me, to drink wine and talk about what we will do when I grow up"
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