Taking computers to the NeXT level

When Steve Jobs left Apple he hoped to make a big impact with computers for education. But NeXT ended up teaching the computer industry a thing or two instead, as David Crookes explains

In summer 1985, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs rebuffed three offers to become a professor. “I told all of the universities that I thought I would be an awful professor,” he later revealed in an interview with Newsweek. Yet he still wanted to make a big impact in the education sector. Jobs was 30 years old and ready for a new challenge. He’d resigned from Apple following a reorganisation, but not before telling the board what he wanted to do next. Having previously visited Brown University, he’d been told academics sorely wanted a powerful, personal workstation capable of helping them with their research. His aim, he told the Apple board, was to create a computer for the higher education market that best suited them. When he made his announcement, jaws dropped, primarily because…

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