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每一个人都有自己小小的童年，然而，人们都是无法选择自己的出生，无法预知自己的童年。快乐或悲伤，似乎都是命中注定。苹果之父乔布斯又有怎样的童年呢？

HINTS:
Lang
Hewlett-Packard Explorers Club
light-emitting
9100A

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Lang also got him into the Hewlett-Packard Explorers Club, a group of 15 or so students who met in the company cafeteria on Tuesday nights. "They would get an engineer from one of the labs to come and talk about what he was working on," Jobs recalled. "My dad would drive me there. I was in heaven. HP was a pioneer of light-emitting diodes. So we talked about what to do with them." Because his father now worked for a laser company, that topic particularly interested him. One night he cornered one of HP's laser engineers after a talk and got a tour of the holography lab. But the most lasting impression came from seeing the small computers the company was developing. "I saw my first desktop computer there. It was called the 9100A, and it was a glorified calculator but also really the first desktop computer. It was huge, maybe forty pounds, but it was a beauty of a thing. I fell in love with it."
朗还让乔布斯加入了惠普探索者俱乐部，这是一个每周一次的聚会，每周二晚在公司餐厅进行，有大概15个学生参加。“他们会从实验室里请来一个工程师，给我们讲讲他正在研究的东西，”乔布斯回忆，“我爸爸会开车送我去。我感觉那儿就是我的天堂。惠普当时是发光二极管的行业先锋，所以我们就会讨论发光二极管的一些问题。”因为当时父亲为一家激光公司工作，所以乔布斯对发光二极管特别感兴趣。有一天晚上，聚会结束之后，他拦住了惠普的一名激光工程师，获得了参观他们全息摄影实验室的机会。但让他印象深刻的还是见到了当时惠普正在开发的小型计算机。“我在那里第一次见到了台式计算机，它被成为9100A，是一台被神化了的计算器，但也确实是第一台台式计算机。它身形巨大，大概有40磅重，但它真的很美，我爱上了它。”