《名人傳記》之喬布斯遺失的訪談26:完全給計(jì)算機(jī)迷住了

So, how did you get involved, uh, with personal computers?

你是怎么與個(gè)人計(jì)算機(jī)結(jié)緣的?

Well, I ran into my first computer when I was about 10 or 11.

我第一次見(jiàn)到計(jì)算機(jī)是10或11歲

And it’s hard to remember back then but I’m, I’m no fossile now, I’m no fossile

很難回憶當(dāng)年的情景，我可不是故作老成

So when I was 10 or 11, that was about 30 years ago and no one had ever seen a computer.

大約30多年前，見(jiàn)過(guò)電腦的人不多

To the extent they’d seen them, they’d seen them in the movies.

即使見(jiàn)到，也是在電影里

And they were really big boxes with...For some reason they fixated it on the tape drives, as being the icon of what the computer was, or flashing light somehow.

那時(shí)電影里的計(jì)算機(jī)都是裝有開(kāi)盤(pán)機(jī)的大柜子，閃閃發(fā)光

And, so nobody had ever seen mysterious, very powerful things that did something in the background.

真正了解計(jì)算機(jī)功能和原理的人不多

And so to see one and actually get to use one was a real privilege back.

有機(jī)會(huì)接觸計(jì)算機(jī)的人更是寥寥無(wú)幾

And I got into NASA Ames Research Center and I got to use a time sharing terminal.

我有幸在NASA Ames研究中心見(jiàn)到一臺(tái)

And so I didn’t actually see a computer but I saw a time sharing terminal.

那還不是一臺(tái)完整的計(jì)算機(jī)，只是一臺(tái)分時(shí)共享的終端機(jī)

And in those days it’s hard to remember how primitive it was. There were no such things as a computer with a graphics video display.

設(shè)備非常簡(jiǎn)陋，連顯示器都沒(méi)有

It was literally a printer. It was a teletype printer with keyboard on it.

只是一臺(tái)帶鍵盤(pán)的電傳打印機(jī)

So you would keyboard this commands in and you would wait for a while,

你在鍵盤(pán)上輸入指令耐心等待

and then things would go "tatatatatata", and it would tell you something else.

然后它會(huì)噠噠噠地輸出結(jié)果

But even with that, it was still remarkable, especially for a 10-year-old,

即便如此這玩意也太奇妙了，尤其是對(duì)十歲的男孩而言

that you could write a program in BASIC, let's say, or FORTRAN.

你可以用Basic語(yǔ)言或Fortran語(yǔ)言編寫(xiě)程序

And actually this machine would sort of take your idea,

機(jī)器接受并執(zhí)行你的設(shè)想

and it would sort of execute your idea and give you back some results.

然后把結(jié)果告訴你

And if they were the results you predicted,

如果結(jié)果和設(shè)想的一樣

your program really work,

說(shuō)明程序見(jiàn)效了

and it was incredibly thrilling experience.

這太讓人激動(dòng)了

So I became very err.... captivated by computer.

我完全給計(jì)算機(jī)迷住了