我是鮑勃.科林吉里,16年前,我拍攝電視節目「書呆子的勝利」時,我採訪了史帝夫.賈伯斯,時間是在1995年。在那10年前,賈伯斯離開蘋果,他與執行長史卡利發生激烈衝突;史卡利還是他親自找進公司的。訪問當時,賈伯斯在經營NeXT電腦,創立於他離開蘋果之後。當時沒人料到,18個月後,他會將NeXT賣給蘋果;再6個月後,他會重掌大權。由於電視製作的關係,節目中只用到部份訪問,多年來我們以為訪問內容已遺失,母帶從倫敦運送美國途中失蹤。不久前,節目導播保羅.森,在自家車庫發現訪問的拷貝影帶。
I’m Bob Cringely. 16 years ago when I was making my television series Triumph of the Nerds I interviewed Steve Jobs. That was in 1995. Ten years earlier Steve had left Apple following a bruising struggle with John Sculley, the CEO he’d bought into the company. At the time of our interview Steve was running NeXT, the niche computer company he founded after leaving Apple. Little did we know that within 18 months he would sell NeXT to Apple and six months later he’d be running the place. The way things work in television we used only a part of that interview in the series and for years we thought the interview was lost forever because the master tape went missing while being shipped from London to the US in the 1990s. Then just a few days ago series director Paul Sen found a VHS copy of that interview in his garage.