“With the global attention accorded the passing of Steve Jobs in the past month it might seem that after the biography, television interludes and interviews, Time Magazine covers, and more that nothing additional could be said,” Harris Fogel reports for Mac Edition Radio. “At least that is what I thought when I was offered the chance to view a rough cut of a video based on an interview that Robert Cringely did with Steve Jobs for Cringely’s documentary ‘Triumph of the Nerds,’ an epic PBS miniseries about the founding of the personal computer industry.”
“We have seen some edits of the interview, but the master tapes were lost until now,” Fogel reports. “A VHS (somehow this sounds so fitting!) tape survived in the garage of the producer, the only copy of the entire interview, not the 10 minute edit [with which] you are probably familiar.”
Fogel reports, “Is the interview interesting? Is it worth an hour of your time? In my opinion it is an unqualified yes. This is Jobs talking as candidly as you have ever seen him, pulling no punches, from John Scully’s leadership of Apple, to his ecstatic joy over ‘blue boxing’ the AT&T phone system with pal Steve Wozniak.”
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