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1. 1985

   1985 shareholders meeting: Macintosh Office, LaserWriter and AppleTalk

   At the annual meeting Jobs reads a child’s letter about Apple, lays out a two-year plan to take the Mac into the office as an alternative to IBM, and introduces the LaserWriter ($6,995), the AppleTalk network and a file server, plus Andy Hertzfeld’s Switcher demo that ‘dazzled the crowd’.

2. 1985

   ‘To Steven Jobs on His Thirtieth Birthday’ (Apple tribute video)

   A five-minute tribute film produced by Apple’s creative-services group for the black-tie 30th-birthday party Jobs threw at the St. Francis Hotel (where Ella Fitzgerald sang), compiling footage of Jobs from his Apple years just three months before his ouster.

3. 1985

   Lund University visit: Apple University Consortium Europe inauguration

   In jeans and a white shirt, weeks before his final break with Apple, Jobs tells Lund academics the computer is ‘a new medium’ and imagines a future machine that could capture the mind of ‘the next Aristotle’ so students could ask him questions; he dismisses the 1985 industry slump as a delay of an inevitable revolution and says his next stop is the Soviet Union to sell Macintoshes.

4. 1985

   Newsweek On Air: ‘Steve Jobs’ segment on his resignation (radio)

   Five days after Jobs’s resignation letter, Newsweek’s radio hour devotes a segment to him, with California Technology Stock Letter editor Michael Murphy and San Francisco correspondent Michael Rogers, who had just interviewed Jobs for the magazine’s cover story on his departure.

5. 1985

   ‘The Entrepreneurs’ – PBS documentary on NeXT’s first year

   A rare 1985-86 PBS documentary following Jobs and the NeXT founding team through strategy retreats, with Paul Rand unveiling the NeXT logo and Joanna Hoffman confronting Jobs about his ‘reality distortion’. Jobs says the company is ‘architecting a company’ more than building a product.

6. 1987

   BBC interview on computers in higher education

   A year before the NeXT Cube launch, Jobs explains what higher education needs from workstations: simulations of historical models, tools designed by observing scholars, and the first major curriculum shift since the 1960s.

7. 1987

   BBC interview at Pixar’s first-anniversary party

   Short BBC footage from Pixar’s one-year anniversary party, focusing on Pixar and ILM, with Jobs and Ed Catmull on camera and Alvy Ray Smith and Loren Carpenter in audio.

8. 1988

   Comment on the Apple v. Microsoft GUI lawsuit

   A short 1988 clip of Jobs, then at NeXT, commenting on Apple’s look-and-feel lawsuit against Microsoft over the graphical user interface.

9. 1988

   NeXTSTEP demonstration: MIDI and the quotation application

   Wikipedia’s media timeline lists a 1988 video of Jobs demonstrating NeXTSTEP’s MIDI capabilities and its quotation (Digital Librarian) application at NeXT’s Redwood City offices, hosted on Archive.org.

10. 1988

    KPIX interview at the NeXT launch

    Local news footage from the day of the NeXT Computer launch, with KPIX reporter Hank Plante interviewing Jobs about the new machine. Released from the station’s archive in December 2023.

11. 1988

    NeXT Computer introduction

    Jobs’s first big public appearance since leaving Apple: a two-and-a-half-hour unveiling of the NeXT Computer (‘the Cube’) and NeXTSTEP before 3,000 invited educators, developers and press, ending with a violin–computer duet and a press Q&A. The full recording surfaced on YouTube in 2016.

12. 1988

    TV feature: Jobs demonstrates the NeXT Computer

    A late-1988 television report in which Jobs walks through the NeXT Computer’s Digital Librarian, dictionary and thesaurus, and music capabilities, ending with a violinist playing Bach with the Cube. allaboutstevejobs.com notes the segment was introduced by Ted Koppel.

13. 1988

    NeXT Computer demo at the Boston Computer Society

    An audience recording of Jobs presenting and demonstrating the NeXT Computer to the Boston Computer Society a few weeks after the San Francisco launch — his first East Coast product reveal since leaving Apple. Part of the 200-hour ‘Powersharing’ trove released by Charles Mann in 2020.