《名人傳記》之喬布斯最后一件事102:一段美好的回憶

Woz and jobs became inseparable friends,

沃茲和喬布斯成為了形影不離的伙伴,

But their first venture was not a computer.

但是他們的第一項冒險舉動并不是電腦

The pair developed an electronics kit

這對組合開發(fā)了一個電子小工具

Mimicking telephone router codes

用模擬電話交換碼的方式

To make free calls around the world.

來撥打全球免費(fèi)電話.

you know, when you make a long distance phone call

你知道，當(dāng)你在撥打長途電話的時候，

In the background you hear, "do do do do do"

你會聽到耳朵里有"嘟嘟嘟嘟嘟"的聲音

Those are the telephone computers actually signaling each other,

那是電話交換機(jī)的電腦在向其他電腦發(fā)送信號

Sending information to each other to set up your call.

通過這信號來完成你撥打電話的指令.

And there used to be a way to fool

所以那會兒有一種方法

The entire telephone system into thinking

通過欺騙整個電話系統(tǒng)使之認(rèn)為

You were a telephone computer.

你是一臺電話交換機(jī).

You could, you know, call from a pay phone,

你可以，你知道嗎，從一個付費(fèi)電話撥打到

Go to white plains, new york, take a satellite to europe,

White plains,紐約，或者通過衛(wèi)星撥打到歐洲

Take a cable to turkey, um, come back to los angeles,

或者通過海底電纜撥打到土耳其，嗯，再撥打回洛杉磯

And you'd go around the world 3 or 4 times and call

你可以在你家門口附近的付費(fèi)電話里喊一喊，

The payphone next door, shout in the phone,

撥打三四次全世界的長途電話號碼

And be about 30 seconds, it would come out the other phone.

然后30秒后，那邊就接通了.

the pair quickly moved on from phone-jacking for fun

這對年輕人很快把他們對于通過電話黑客找樂子的興趣

To creating computers,

轉(zhuǎn)移到了建造電腦計算機(jī)上，

building the prototype of the very first apple.

也就是第一臺蘋果電腦上.

It's a fond memory for steve wozniak.

對于沃茲來說那是一段美好的回憶.

Wozniak: he was always thinking about certain technology,

他總是在思考這些技術(shù)

The early products that got developed, the building parts,

這些正在制作的部分或者已經(jīng)完成的早期產(chǎn)品

What those might lead to in our future,

將如何引領(lǐng)我們的未來

And he was always pushing me as an engineer

他一直在敦促我把我變成一個工程師

"could you possibly add this someday,

"你能在某個時候加入這個(功能)嗎?

Could you possibly add that someday?"

你能在某個時候加入那個(功能)嗎?"

"yes, yes, yes, I could,"

"可以，可以，可以，我能."

Thinking, "no. It's way, way off,"

其實我心里在想, "不，還早著呢."

But eventually we all did.

但是最后我們?nèi)孔龅搅?

in those early days, woz and jobs took their creation

在早期，沃茲和喬布斯帶著他們的發(fā)明

To the homebrew computer club,

參加了"個人電腦俱樂部",

an early computer club, an early computer users' group in silicon valley,

一個早期由硅谷電腦用戶們自發(fā)組建的電腦俱樂部

Where it quickly attracted attention from their peers.

在那里他們很快引起了其他人的注意