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Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition
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Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition

by Owen Linzmayer
January 2004
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
344 pages
13h 15m
English
No Starch Press
Content preview from Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition
What Jobs Did NeXT
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After being stripped of all operational responsibilities on May 31, 1985, Steve
Jobs had little to do at Apple, so he began canvassing the country’s colleges
asking them to describe their ideal university computer. In early September,
Jobs had lunch with Paul Berg, Nobel laureate and Stanford University
biochemist. When Berg complained of the difculty of performing “wet-
lab” research on gene splicing, Jobs suggested simulating the experiments
on a computer. Berg was supposedly so enthusiastic about the idea that
Jobs felt he was onto something big. Within weeks, Jobs decided to launch
a startup with ve other Apple ...
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