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Apple founder Stew Jobs' unseen interview to
be released
Saturday April 28, 2012 08:10:11 PM,
IANS
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London: A
never-before-seen interview with Apple founder Steve Jobs will
premiere next month. In the interview, Jobs speaks about how he
pulled off a prank call to the pope, saying he was US secretary of
state Henry Kissinger.
Jobs was interviewed by journalist Bob Cringely in 1995 for a
Channel 4 series titled "Triumph Of The Nerds", the Daily Mail
reported.
The Apple founder - who died in October last year after a battle
with cancer - speaks about a story when he and friend Steve
Wozniak called the Vatican, asking to speak to the pope to tell
him it was Kissinger.
Only when the pair burst out laughing, that Vatican officials
realised it was a joke, Jobs says in the interview.
He said they used a "blue box" for the purpose. The device enabled
them to imitate tones used for long-distance calls.
Only a few minutes of the original interview were used. The rest
has been made into a documentary titled "Steve Jobs - The Lost
Interview".
Last year after Jobs' death, Paul Sen, director of "Triumph of the
Nerds", went to his garage to look for his VHS version of the
interview, the Independent reported.
"I remember being sat in the room at the time and thinking, 'This
guy's an amazing interviewee'. He had this amazing charisma. As
soon as he walked in the room, we all noticed," Sen said about
Jobs.
Cringely said the interview was the most comprehensive and
revealing Jobs ever gave.
Jobs speaks about encountering his first computer at 10 or 11
years of age. He called the machine a "mysterious and powerful big
box that did something in the background".
"I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a
computer because it teaches you how to think. Computer science
should be a liberal art," Jobs said.
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