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60 Steve Jobs

this, he wanted to reorganize Apple and put someone other than

Jobs in charge of the Macintosh division, which had swelled to

over seven hundred people.

Jobs rebelled against this plan. He tried to get the company’s

board of directors to fire Sculley and make him the CEO. But this

did not happen. The board voted against Jobs.

Jobs lost control of the Macintosh division. Although he was

given the title of chairman of Product Development, he was

stripped of any real power. In 1985, his office was moved off the

main Apple campus to a building where he rarely came in contact

with other Apple employees. He recalls:

I was asked to move out of my office. They leased a little

building across the street from most of the other Apple

buildings. I nicknamed it Siberia. So I moved across the

street, and I made sure that all of the executive staff had my

home phone number . . . I wanted to be useful in any way

I could . . . but none of them ever called. So I used to go

to work. I’d get there, and I would have one or two phone

calls to perform, a little bit of mail to look at. But most of

the corporate management reports stopped flowing by my

desk. A few people might see my car in the parking lot and

come over and commiserate. And I would get depressed

and go home in two or three or four hours, really depressed.

I did that a few times, and I decided that it was mentally

unhealthy. So I just stopped going in.45

NeXT Computers

Jobs spent his newfound spare time at the Stanford University

Library. Here, he met Paul Berg, a biochemist studying gene ther￾apy. When Jobs learned that it often took Berg two weeks to run

a single test, he got the idea of building a computer in which

students and researchers could simulate experiments. From this

idea, NeXT computers was born. The company, he proclaimed,

would make: “A radically new machine that might enable some