有声英语故事连载：《名人传记》之乔布斯 第32期

故事连载

 

And although they could scavenge most of the parts as well,

虽然他们也能弄到零件

they didn’t have the sort of skills to build them that we had acquired by training ourselves through building them.

但他们不具备制作经验和技能

So we ended up helping them build most of their computers and it was really taking up all of our time.

我们只好替他们做，这事占用了我们所有时间

And we thought, you know, if we could make, what’s called printed circuit board,

于是我们想到制作印刷电路板

which is a piece of fabric glass with copper on both sides that etch to form the wire,

就是在镀铜的玻璃纤维板两面腐蚀出铜导线

so that you can build a computer, you know, you can build an Apple I in a few hours instead of 40 hours.

采用印刷电路板，只要几小时就能做出一台Apple I

 

 

 

If we only had one of those, we could sell them to all of our friends for,

有了这些，我们能把电路板以成本价卖给朋友

you know as much as it cost to make them, make our money back.

把钱赚回来这样皆大欢喜

And everybody would be happy, we say, we get a life again.

我们也可以休息休息

So we did that. I sold my Volkswagen bus and Steve sold his calculator,

说干就干，我把玩具大众车卖了，Woz卖了计算器

We got enough money to pay a friend of us to make the art work to make a printed circuit board.

我们凑够了钱，请朋友设计印刷电路板

 

 

 

And we made some printed circuit boards, and we sold some to our friends,

电路板做出来后，卖给了朋友

and I was trying to sell the rest of them so we can get micro bus and calculator back….

我想把剩下的也卖了，把玩具车和计算器赎回来

And I walked into the first computer store in the world, which was the Byte Shop of a Mountain View,

我去了世界上第一家计算机商店，Mountain View的字节商店

I think, on El Camino. It metamorphosized within an adult bookstore, but at this point, it was the Byte Shop. And the person I ran into, I think his name was Paul Terrell.

那时它藏在一家成人书店里，我见到了老板Paul Terrell

He said ”You know, I’ll take 50 of those”, I said “this is great”.

Paul说“我预订50套”，我说“太好了。”

“ But I want them fully assembled.”

但我要完全组装好的计算机”