圖:保羅·喬布斯和史蒂夫·喬布斯

每一個人都有自己小小的童年,然而,人們都是無法選擇自己的出生,無法預知自己的童年??鞓坊虮瘋?,似乎都是命中注定。蘋果之父喬布斯又有怎樣的童年呢?

HINTS:
San Jose
Haltek
Nash Metropolitan
MG
Nash Metropolitan
Fiat
Abarth

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At the wooden counters up front, laden with thick catalogues in tattered binders, people would haggle for switches, resistors, capacitors, and sometimes the latest memory chips. His father used to do that for auto parts, and he succeeded because he knew the value of each better than the clerks. Jobs followed suit. He developed a knowledge of electronic parts that was honed by his love of negotiating and turning a profit. He would go to electronic flea markets, such as the San Jose swap meet, haggle for a used circuit board that contained some valuable chips or components, and then sell those to his manager at Haltek. Jobs was able to get his first car, with his father's help, when he was 15. It was a two-tone Nash Metropolitan that his father had fitted out with an MG engine. Jobs didn't really like it, but he did not want to tell his father that, or miss out on the chance to have his own car. "In retrospect, a Nash Metropolitan might seem like the most wickedly cool car," he later said. "But at the time it was the most uncool car in the world. Still, it was a car, so that was great." Within a year he had saved up enough from his various jobs that he could trade up to a red Fiat 850 coupe with an Abarth engine. "My dad helped me buy and inspect it. The satisfaction of getting paid and saving up for something, that was very exciting."
在店里堆滿了厚厚目錄的木質柜臺前,人們會為了開關、電阻、電容和最新的存儲芯片討價還價。喬布斯的父親以前也曾為汽車部件做過這樣的事情,因為他比店員還清楚零件的價格,所以每次都能還價成功。喬布斯在這點上學習了父親。他熱衷于談判并從中獲得實惠,這也讓他對電子零件有了更充分的了解。他會去電子產品的跳蚤市場,比如圣何塞交換大會,為了一塊帶有值錢芯片的電路板跟人討價還價,然后把那些芯片賣給哈爾泰克商店的經理。 15歲那年,在父親的幫助下,喬布斯擁有了自己的第一輛汽車。那是一輛雙拼色的納什大都會轎車,他父親為之配備了一臺英國MG公司生產的發(fā)動機。喬布斯并不怎么喜歡這輛車,但他不想讓父親知道,更不想錯過擁有自己汽車的機會?!艾F在回想起來,納什大都會看起來是最酷的車了,”他后來說,“但當時它是全世界最爛的車。不過,不管怎么樣它也是一輛車,這就很好了?!辈坏揭荒辏ㄟ^各種各樣的工作攢夠了錢,可以換一輛帶阿巴斯發(fā)動機的紅色菲亞特850轎跑車了。“我爸爸幫我買車并檢查了車況。把掙的錢攢起來去買東西的那種滿足感太讓人興奮了。”