The Secret CIA Connection Behind NeXT’s Survival and Jobs’ Return to Apple
The agency quietly bought 20,000 specially configured workstations as NeXT struggled for sales, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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In 1986, the Cold War was at its peak, and Steve Jobs was trying to rebuild his career after being kicked out of Apple. He had founded NeXT just a year earlier and had imagined a computer so advanced that it would change the way universities, researchers and scientists work. The problem is...
It has been revealed that NeXT, founded by Steve Jobs after leaving Apple, had a secret collaboration with the CIA in the 1980s. NeXT computers were used in intelligence operations, and this collaboration contributed to the company's survival, even years later influencing Apple's operating systems.
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Steve Jobs with Macintosh (left), NeXTcube (center), and iMac. In the mid-1980s, as Steve Jobs struggled to keep his post-Apple venture NeXT alive, an unexpected lifeline arrived from the CIA. During the height of the Cold War, intelligence officials sought advanced computing power for satellite reconnaissance and battlefield intelligence. Their interest in NeXT's technology helped sustain the company long enough for Apple to later acquire it- b…
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