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AppleInsider - Hear Steve Jobs demo his NeXT computer in 1988 - xSicKxBot - 09-16-2020
Hear Steve Jobs demo his NeXT computer in 1988
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<p>An audio recording of <a href="https://appleinsider.com/inside/Steve-Jobs">Steve Jobs</a> revealing the NeXT computer shortly after its official launch has been released in full.
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<p>On November 30, 1988, Steve Jobs gave one of the first public demonstrations of the then brand-new <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/09/12/looking-back-at-steve-jobss-next-inc----the-most-successful-failure-ever">NeXT Computer</a> to the Boston Computer Society. An audio recording was made of the entire event and it has now been released online.
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<p>Harry McCracken was in the audience at the time and <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90541084/this-unheard-steve-jobs-tape-is-part-of-an-amazing-trove-of-tech-history">has written</a> about the experience of that night, and of the new audio discovery, for <em>Fast Company</em>. </p>
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<p>“Sitting there being wowed by the machine was an oddly bittersweet experience,” he writes. “At $6,500, it was so far out of my price range that desiring one was purely aspirational, like lusting after a Lamborghini. But at evening’s end, as we streamed out of Jobs’s reality-distortion field back into the chilly Boston air, each of us got a NeXT product to take home: a glossy poster depicting the cube in all its unattainable glory.”
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<p>The Boston Computer Society used to regularly video its meetings and presentations. “The NeXT session, however, was not among the ones that had been videotaped,” says McCracken.
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<p>“[But] in 1988, when I was basking in Jobs’s presentation, [Charles] Mann was elsewhere in the hall recording it [on audio].”
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<p>This audio recording is one of three that feature Jobs, and one of 92 that were made of Boston Computer Society meetings and similar events. It’s a trove of computing history, as spoken at the time by the likes of Jobs, Bill Gates and more.
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<p>The episodes, covering nine years from the early 1980s, are all <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-626311220">available now</a> on SoundCloud.</p>
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