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Subject: Re: Steve Jobs
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Date: 10 Nov 90 20:39:12 GMT
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In article <1990Nov9.144606.22532@oz.plymouth.edu> p_reynol@oz.plymouth.edu (Patricia L. Reynolds) writes:
>Help!  I'm writing an paper on Steve Jobs, the man and the myth.
>What I want is to get some info on the man himself, but I'll take any
>information that anyone can give me.  What would be extremely helpful
>would be his E-mail address, if he even has one.
>
>Just to let you know:  The paper is going to be written as if it's for
>a magazine.  The magazine I chose was Cosmpolitan.  I'm planning on
>making this a spectacular article, with all sorts of bits and pieces
>from Steve Jobs' past, present, and future.
>
>Thank you for any help you can give me.
>
>Trish
>p_reynol@oz.plymouth.edu
>
>Mailing address:
>
>Mary Lyon Hall
>Box 59
>Plymouth State College
>Plymouth, NH  03264
>Phone: (603) 535-5445

I'm sure that a lot of people on this net can give you some information on
Steve Jobs but it would be useful if you would tell us what kind of info
you are looking for.  On the other hand, I have read the following books (all
of them many times) and have found a lot of personal information on the man.
These wonderful books include:

	1. The Journey Is the Reward -- the author's name escapes me at the
		moment since I lent the book out to a friend but this is
		probably the best source of information on Steve Jobs; it
		starts from his precocious childhood, leads up to his teens 
		and where he went to high school, his meeting with Steve
	 	Wozniak and the founding of Apple with Woz (and of course,
		Mike Markula), his experiences with Eastern religions which
		led up to his trip to India and his disillusionment with
		what he found there, his visit to Xerox PARC and his 
		obsession to create the Mac, his meeting with John Sculley
		and his departure from Apple to form NeXT, inc.  The title
		from the book is from a Tao belief (which Jobs also subscribe
		to and tried to instill in his (ex)Mac software artists) that
		the journey, not the destination, is the reward.
	2. Odyssey -- an autobiography by John Sculley(sp?), head honcho at
		Apple with a lot of information on how Steve works and
		what led up to Jobs leaving Apple.
	3. Fire In the Valley -- a book on the computer industry with a couple
		of chapters on Apple and hence Steve Jobs.
	4. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution -- a book on various
		people who were involved with the "Computer Revolution".  Not
		that much info on Jobs but a good book overall.
	5. Silicon Portraits -- I haven't read this book yet but it's a
		collection of profiles of various personalities in the
		computer industry.  There's probably nothing here that you
		couldn't get from the other books.
	6. Fortune article -- I believe the date on this article was from
		sometime last year but the topic of the article was on
		the licensing agreement of NeXTStep between IBM and NeXT.
		Contains an anecdote about how Jobs approached Akers and told
		him how to sell more computers and how Jobs sold a computer
		to a king (or prince).

This is all I have.  If you had any specific questions, please post them
and I am sure that someone on the net would be happy to answer them.
Incidentally, I remember reading a rumor on this net that Jobs recently got
married!  Don't know if it's true....


Hope this helps....with kind regards

Alex