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When that happened, Jobs got a distressed call from Rich Page, who had been engineering the Big Mac's chip set.
事情發生后，喬布斯接到了里奇·佩奇悲憤的控訴電話，佩奇之前一直在設計大Mac的芯片組。
It was the latest in a series of conversations that Jobs was having with disgruntled Apple employees urging him to start a new company and rescue them.
喬布斯被解除管理職務后，不滿的蘋果員工曾陸續找他談話，力勸他創辦一家新企業來拯救他們。
Plans to do so began to jell over Labor Day weekend, when Jobs spoke to Bud Tribble, the original Macintosh software chief,
勞工節的周末，創辦新公司的計劃開始醞釀。喬布斯同原麥金塔軟件主管巴德·特里布爾談話，
and floated the idea of starting a company to build a powerful but personal workstation.
并說出了自己的想法——創建一家公司，專門生產強大的個人工作站。
He also enlisted two other Macintosh division employees who had been talking about leaving,
他還聯系到其他兩位麥金塔部門員工，這兩人一直都在考慮辭職。
the engineer George Crow and the controller Susan Barnes.
他們是工程師喬治·克羅和總監蘇珊·巴恩斯。
That left one key vacancy on the team: a person who could market the new product to universities.
新團隊還有一個關鍵的職位空缺：一個可以向高校營銷新產品的人。
The obvious candidate was Dan'l Lewin, who at Apple had organized a consortium of universities to buy Macintosh computers in bulk.
很明顯，這一職位的合適人選是丹·盧因，盧因后來組織了一個高校聯盟，向多家大學批量出售麥金塔電腦。
Besides missing two letters in his first name, Lewin had the chiseled good looks of Clark Kent and a Princetonian's polish.
丹·盧因的名字雖然比丹尼爾·盧因少了兩個字母，但卻擁有克拉克·肯特般輪廓鮮明的外貌、普林斯頓式的優雅。
He and Jobs shared a bond: Lewin had written a Princeton thesis on Bob Dylan and charismatic leadership,
盧因和喬布斯有著共同的興趣：盧因的大學畢業論文對鮑勃·迪倫和魅力型領導力進行了研究，
and Jobs knew something about both of those topics.
而喬布斯對這兩個話題都有所了解。
Lewin's university consortium had been a godsend to the Macintosh group,
盧因的高校聯盟對麥金塔團隊來說是個天賜良機。
but he had become frustrated after Jobs left
但是，喬布斯離開后，盧因很泄氣，
and Bill Campbell had reorganized marketing in a way that reduced the role of direct sales to universities.
比爾·坎貝爾也將營銷部門進行了重組，降低了高校直銷的重要性。
