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The NeXT software and hardware were designed, he said, after three years of consulting with universities across the country.
喬布斯說，在經過3年對全國高校的咨詢后，公司設計出了NeXT軟件和硬件。
"What we realized was that higher ed wants a personal mainframe." As usual there were superlatives.
“我們意識到，高等教育行業的人需要的是個人大型主機。”同以往一樣，他的演講有些溢美之詞。
The product was "incredible," he said, "the best thing we could have imagined."
喬布斯說，該產品“令人難以置信”，是“我們所能想象的最好產品”。
He praised the beauty of even the parts unseen.
他甚至稱贊機器內部看不到的部件也工藝完美。
Balancing on his fingertips the foot-square circuit board that would be nestled in the foot-cube box, he enthused,
他用手指托著一個1平方英尺見方的電路板，這個電路板將放在NeXT1英尺見方的機箱中。他熱情地說道：
"I hope you get a chance to look at this a little later.
“我希望你們一會兒能有機會看看這個東西。
It's the most beautiful printed circuit board I've ever seen in my life."
這是我一生中見過的最漂亮的印刷電路板。”
He then showed how the computer could play speeches
喬布斯接著展示了這臺電腦播放講話的功能，
he featured King's "I Have a Dream" and Kennedy's "Ask Not"--and send email with audio attachments.
他播放了馬丁·路德·金的《我有一個夢想》和肯尼迪的《不要問》,以及發送加載音頻附件的郵件的功能。
He leaned into the microphone on the computer to record one of his own.
他俯下身，對著電腦的麥克風，錄下了自己的聲音。
"Hi, this is Steve, sending a message on a pretty historic day."
“嗨，我是史蒂夫，在這個極富歷史性的一天，我發出了這條消息。”
Then he asked those in the audience to add "a round of applause" to the message, and they did.
然后，他叫觀眾給這個消息加上“一片掌聲”，觀眾們照做了。
