喬布斯傳:第一章:原來(lái)這就是硅谷(14)
來(lái)源:滬江聽(tīng)寫(xiě)酷
2011-11-23 14:20
圖:保羅·喬布斯和史蒂夫·喬布斯
每一個(gè)人都有自己小小的童年,然而,人們都是無(wú)法選擇自己的出生,無(wú)法預(yù)知自己的童年??鞓?lè)或悲傷,似乎都是命中注定。蘋(píng)果之父喬布斯又有怎樣的童年呢?
HINTS:
Lockheed Missiles
Space Division
NASA Center
Westinghouse
David Packard
Palo Alto
Bill Hewlett
Hewlett-Packard
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Other defense contractors sprouted nearby during the 1950s. The Lockheed Missiles and Space Division, which built submarine-launched ballistic missiles, was founded in 1956 next to the NASA Center; by the time Jobs moved to the area four years later, it employed 20,000 people. A few hundred yards away, Westinghouse built facilities that produced tubes and electrical transformers for the missile systems. "You had all these military companies on the cutting edge," he recalled. "It was mysterious and high-tech and made living here very exciting."
In the wake of the defense industries there arose a booming economy based on technology. Its roots stretched back to 1938, when David Packard and his new wife moved into a house in Palo Alto that had a shed where his friend Bill Hewlett was soon ensconced. The house had a garage, an appendage that would prove both useful and iconic in the valley, in which they tinkered around until they had their first product, an audio oscillator. By the 1950s, Hewlett-Packard was a fast-growing company making technical instruments.
其他的國(guó)防項(xiàng)目承包商也于20世紀(jì)50年代陸續(xù)在周邊落地生根。1956年,生產(chǎn)潛射彈道導(dǎo)彈的洛克希德公司導(dǎo)彈與空間部門(mén)在NASA中信隔壁成立;4年后喬布斯一家搬到這里時(shí),該部門(mén)已經(jīng)雇傭了20000名員工。幾百米之外就是西屋電氣公司,其生產(chǎn)的設(shè)備是用來(lái)為導(dǎo)彈系統(tǒng)制造電子管和變壓器的。“擁有尖端科技的軍事公司云集于此?!彼貞浀?,“這太不可思議了、太高科技了,生活在這里真讓人覺(jué)得興奮。”
國(guó)防工業(yè)的復(fù)蘇,引發(fā)了一場(chǎng)依托科技的經(jīng)濟(jì)急速發(fā)展。這場(chǎng)發(fā)展的根基還要回溯到1938年,當(dāng)時(shí)戴維帕卡德和他的新婚妻子搬進(jìn)了帕羅奧圖的一座公寓,很快他的朋友比爾休利特也在這座公寓的一個(gè)小屋里安頓了下來(lái)。房子有一間車(chē)庫(kù)——這間車(chē)庫(kù)后來(lái)成為了硅谷的標(biāo)志之一——在這里,他們敲敲打打,制造出了自己的第一件產(chǎn)品:一臺(tái)音頻振蕩器。到20世紀(jì)50年代,惠普已經(jīng)成為一家制造技術(shù)儀器的快速成長(zhǎng)的公司。