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Steve Jobs: A BiographySteve and his whole NeXT team are the darnedest bunch of perfectionists IБЂ™ve ever seen.БЂ« Perot also traveled in rarefied social and business circles that complemented JobsБЂ™s own. He took Jobs to a black-tie dinner dance in San Francisco that Gordon and Ann Getty gave for King Juan Carlos I of Spain. When the king asked Perot whom he should meet, Perot immediately produced Jobs. They were soon engaged in what Perot later described as БЂњelectric conversation,БЂ« with Jobs animatedly describing the next wave in computing. At the end the king scribbled a note and handed it to Jobs. БЂњWhat happened?БЂ« Perot asked. Jobs answered, БЂњI sold him a computer.БЂ« These and other stories were incorporated into the mythologized story of Jobs that Perot told wherever he went. At a briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, he spun JobsБЂ™s life story into a Texas-size yarn about a young man so poor he couldnБЂ™t afford to go to college, working in his garage at night, playing with computer chips, which was his hobby, and his dadБЂ”who looks like a character out of a Norman Rockwell paintingБЂ”comes in one day and said, БЂњSteve, either make something you can sell or go get a job.БЂ« Sixty days later, in a wooden box that his dad made for him, the first Apple computer was created ...» |
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