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乔布斯传:第二章:整蛊天线(12)

2012-01-04 13:00
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图:1979年,史蒂夫·乔布斯和史蒂夫沃兹尼亚克

沃兹尼亚克是影响乔布斯的重要人物之一。乔布斯与沃兹尼亚克初遇时,他们就很快发现了彼此都有着许多共同点,很快两人因为共同的兴趣交融到一起。

HINTS:
Wozniak
TV
Star Trek

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Another prank involved a pocket device Wozniak built that could emit TV signals. He would take it to a room where a group of people were watching TV, such as in a dorm, and secretly press the button so that the screen would get fuzzy with static. When someone got up and whacked the set, Wozniak would let go of the button and the picture would clear up. Once he had the unsuspecting viewers hopping up and down at his will, he would make things harder. He would keep the picture fuzzy until someone touched the antenna. Eventually he would make people think they had to hold the antenna while standing on one foot or touching the top of the set. Years later, at a keynote presentation where he was having his own trouble getting a video to work, Jobs broke from his script and recounted the fun they had with the device. "Woz would have it in his pocket and we’d go into a dorm, where a bunch of folks would be, like, watching Star Trek, and he'd screw up the TV, and someone would go up to fix it, and just as they had the foot off the ground he would turn it back on, and as they put their foot back on the ground he'd screw it up again." Contorting himself into a pretzel onstage, Jobs concluded to great laughter, "And within five minutes he would have someone like this."
在另一场恶作剧中,使用到了沃兹尼亚克发明的一个可以发射电视信号的便携装置。他会带着这个装置走进一个大家都在看电视的房间,比如说宿舍,然后悄悄按下按钮,电视屏幕就会受到静电干扰而变得模糊。有人站起来猛敲电视机的时候,沃兹就松开按钮,于是画面就会恢复正常。一旦那些毫不怀疑的观众们开始顺着他的意思不断起身,他就会提高难度。他会让画面一直模糊着,知道有人去碰一下天线。最终他会让一群观众以为扶着天线的同时还必须单脚着地或者手放在电视机顶部。多年以后,在一场主题演讲上,乔布斯也遇到了视频无法播放的麻烦,他放下演讲稿,讲述了当年和沃兹一起玩这个装置时的快乐。“沃兹会把它装在口袋里,然后走进一间宿舍,那里会有一群人看《星际迷航》,他就开始在电视机上捣乱,这时就会有人站起来准备去修,他脚刚抬起来沃兹就会让电视恢复正常,脚落地之后沃兹又再次让电视画面变模糊。”乔布斯站在台上作出扭曲的表情,笑着说:“不出五分钟,就会有人被气成我现在这个样子。”
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