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Initially the revenue was supposed to come from the hardware side.
最初，皮克斯公司希望硬件能帶來收入。
The Pixar Image Computer sold for $125,000.
皮克斯圖像電腦售價12.5萬美元，
The primary customers were animators and graphic designers,
主要購買者是動畫師和平面設計師，
but the machine also soon found specialized markets in the medical industry
不過這款電腦也在醫療行業和情報領域找到了特殊市場。
(CAT scan data could be rendered in three-dimensional graphics)
醫療CAT掃描數據能夠被轉換成三維圖形
and intelligence fields (for rendering information from reconnaissance flights and satellites).
來自偵察飛機和衛星的信息也能通過該款電腦進行轉換。
Because of the sales to the National Security Agency, Jobs had to get a security clearance,
由于要銷售給美國國家安全局，喬布斯必須接受安全調查，
which must have been fun for the FBI agent assigned to vet him.
對于被指派來調查他的FBI特工來說一定感覺有趣極了。
At one point, a Pixar executive recalled,
據一位皮克斯髙管講述，有一次，
Jobs was called by the investigator to go over the drug use questions, which he answered unabashedly.
調查員打來電話詢問毒品使用問題，喬布斯如實回答，絲毫不加掩飾。
"The last time I used that...," he would say,
他會說“我上回用這種毒品是在……”，
or on occasion he would answer that no, he had actually never tried that particular drug.
偶爾他也會回答不，他從未用過那種毒品。
Jobs pushed Pixar to build a lower-cost version of the computer that would sell for around $30,000.
喬布斯要求皮克斯開發一款成本更低的圖像電腦，售價在3萬美元左右。
He insisted that Hartmut Esslinger design it, despite protests by Catmull and Smith about his fees.
他堅持由哈特穆特·艾斯林格進行設計，盡管卡特穆爾和史密斯對其收費價格表示反對。
It ended up looking like the original Pixar Image Computer,
最后，這款新電腦跟皮克斯圖像電腦很相似，
which was a cube with a round dimple in the middle, but it had Esslinger's signature thin grooves.
是一個立方體，中間有一處圓形凹陷，但帶有艾斯林格招牌式的纖細紋路。
