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Computer History Museum Launches Online Steve Jobs Exhibit

Posted December 5, 2011 at 7:37pm by iClarified · 16207 views
The Computer History Museum today announced the launch of a new online exhibit on legendary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

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Called "Steve Jobs... First, Last, One more thing..." the exhibit traces Jobs's life from his youth building 'Blue Boxes' with partner Steve Wozniak -- devices that allowed its user to make free telephone calls -- to head of the world's biggest company.

The exhibit features rare footage of Jobs from 1980 speaking about the early days of Apple. "We had no idea what people would do with these things," Jobs says in the video, describing the 1977 Apple II computer that launched Apple into a major technology company.

"In Jobs's own words, we hear how luck as well as skill played big roles in Apple's founding," said Dag Spicer, CHM's senior curator. "We also see how focused, articulate and convincing Jobs could be, even at this early stage." Jobs, who seems to genuinely appreciate the magnitude of what Apple could be, remarks: "For some crazy reason in the universe, two people from Los Altos and Cupertino, California managed to want something that just so happened to be what about a million other people wanted."

The new exhibit features objects from the Museum's permanent collection, which holds over 100,000 artifacts, including 3,000 Apple-related items. The new online exhibit also features photographs of Jobs and an essay on his life. Other unique and important early Apple documents in the Museum's permanent collection include the initial offering statement for the founding of Apple and the Macintosh business plan.
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Take a look at the link below...

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