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A year after the company started,
在蘋果電腦公司成立一年之后
the Apple II computer debuted
蘋果第二代電腦
at the West Coast Computer Faire
在西岸電腦節首度推出
in April 1977
在1977年4月
It had a sleek plastic case,
第二代電腦擁有流線型塑料外殼
curved corners, color capabilities
圓滑的角位和紛繽的色彩
and the new apple rainbow colored logo.
以及全新的蘋果彩虹標志
They were pretty and that was big.
這電腦真的很漂亮而且還很大
They were. . even then,
它們即使是現在
Steve's sensibility for design,
也展現了喬布斯的設計靈感
it was prettier than the other ones
它們比較其他通常裝在架上
which were sort of rack-mounted labby things.
那些很刻板的電腦漂亮得多
Steve brought glamour to computing,
喬布斯為電腦和矽谷
to Silicon Valley,
注入了魅力和生命力
and thank God.
真的感謝他
Apple II became a huge success.
蘋果第二代電腦得到空前成功
By June, the company
同年6月,蘋果電腦的營業額
reached $1 million in sales.
達100萬美元
By August, Apple was proftable.
8月,公司開始錄得盈利
Apple soon introduced computer updates,
之后推出電腦的更新技術
a new disk drive and a printer.
還有新磁碟驅動器和打印機
It also began selling
同時也開始銷售
a unique software program
一款獨一無二的軟件程式
that Steve Jobs knew would be a hit
喬布斯知道這款軟件一定會成功
He calls me up and says
他打電話給我說
I got something to show you.
我有東西要給你看
I zip down there,
于是我去了他那里
I had learned by then
因為我那時已學會了
not to question, just go,
不要問,只要去
so I zip down to Cupertino and there he was,
所以我去了庫比蒂諾
there was an Apple II on a desk
那書桌上有部蘋果第二代電腦
and he said look at this.
他叫我看看
And there was a spreadsheet on the screen Visicalc,
在屏幕上有個Visicalc試算表
what became Visicalc.
即是后來的Visicalc試算表軟件
So he says this is the killer app.
他說這是必殺的應用程式
He used the term killer app for the Apple II.
是為蘋果第二代電腦創造的詞匯
