26 CH : 25 Looking for Steve Jobs

25 Looking for Steve Jobs

As Henry was chatting with Bill about the issue, Henry goes on and talks about Microsoft issues.

After 2 months of development, Microsoft valuation has reached $1.8 Million solely due to Microsoft BASIC language copyright. Microsoft BASIC language is increasingly popular within the computer industry now, but it was still far less famous for the common public to know it.

As for Microsoft MS-DOS, it is already the favorite operating system of users due to the many advantages it has over many of its competitors. However, it had barely occupied 3% of market share right now as it had just been introduced just last month. Henry believes this is just beginning as Microsoft definitely will rise soon.

After chatting with Bill for the next few hours, Henry left Microsoft HQ as he has many other things to do.

Henry decided to go to Sunnyville where Apple was.

As the search for Steve Jobs has yet to be successful, Apple has yet to truly recruit any employee as it has nothing to do. While waiting for Bill to bring news, Henry decided to jumpstart the Apple development plan.

Apple had yet to have its office so Henry decided to rent a two story building for the meantime. It cost $20,000 to rent the building annually, but this building was just a temporary office building, so Henry did not mind renting it for such an amount.

With Apple's office set up, Henry has begun to search for a lead on Steve Jobs. This time, he had learned that he should have used money in order to search for him, and so, Henry did.

Henry quickly contacted a small newspaper company whose base was in San Jose and gave the newspaper company $5,000 just to post news about the search for Steve Jobs. Henry offered a reward money of $1,000 for anyone that had news about Steve Jobs' whereabouts.

The newspaper company had eagerly agreed with Henry's offer as $5,000 was very big compared to what they usually received.

The next day, the more than thousands of people that were subscribed to the small newspaper publisher knew about the reward money of $1,000 just to provide someone's location.

Many people were enamoured as the reward is quite big and the job was very easy too. $1,000 is very much to a lot of people as the unemployment rate is 7.2% this year, many people knew that stumbling upon such a quick buck was a good opportunity to earn some quick cash.

Under the encouragement of money, many people begin to search for a man named Steve Jobs. Henry provided quite detailed information about Steve Jobs, so the search went easier than anticipated.

Henry's hounds were already on the loose. It was only a matter of time before Steve would be found.

Henry was just calmly waiting for the news as he believed Steve Jobs would be found soon.

Under the excitement of people, Steve Jobs was quickly found.

The person who sold the information was Steve's colleague. After hearing the news, Henry quickly set off to Steve's location.

[Atari Company Headquarter]

Steve Jobs in 1974 is working on the arcade game leading company, the Atari Company. After searching for a job after his dropout, Jobs quickly found work at Atari as a technician, fixing up and tweaking circuit board designs. He was forced to do this job as he was about to run out of cash.

Henry arrived at the Atari Headquarters and looked at the building for a moment before finally entering.

As he entered the building, Henry found there were electronic parts everywhere on the floor, it was quite a messy sight. There are no front desk people, so Henry just helped himself to go in and find people.

Henry was quickly found out by an employee and was asked.

"Who are you? "What are you doing here ?" An employee put down the box he was carrying and strode towards Henry.

"I'm searching for Steve Jobs, do you know where he is right now?" Henry explained his intention.

"Well, you don't look like a troublemaker, are you looking for that new guy? Follow me then."

The employee then walked away, while Henry was silently following while looking around. After a while, Henry spotted a familiar sight and he now knows it was definitely who he was looking for all this time.

The employee just left after he guided Henry as he had a job to do. So Henry then approached Steve Jobs who was doing some work on a circuit board. After Henry was in front of Steve he found Steve didn't have any reaction as the guy was totally absorbed in his work. So Henry just patted Steve Jobs' shoulder lightly.

Feeling a pat on his shoulder, Steve Jobs stopped his work to look over to find who it was.

Henry then smiled while saying, "It has been some time, Jobs. Do you still remember me ?"

Steve just looked over Henry curiously as he felt familiar with this handsome guy. After thinking about it for what seemed like minutes, Jobs finally reacted as he finally remembered who he was.

"You were that guy in the parking lot, yeah?" Steve stiffened a smile. "Haha, thanks for the ride man, I really needed it."

"Um." Henry chuckled. "Try again."

Steve furrowed his brows as he tried to remember.

"Uhhh… OH YEAH!" Steve snapped his fingers. "You were Kaitlyn's ex, right? Sorry, she isn't here right now."

Henry chuckled once more. It has been a long time, Steve had probably forgotten about him.

"We met before, at a restaurant a long while back." Henry laughed. "My name is Henry."

"Oh, you were that guy in the restaurant! It has been quite some time huh, what are you doing here ?" He quickly shakes hands with Henry as Henry can be counted as one of his contacts.

Steve Jobs couldn't think of any reason why Henry would be here. Heck, how did he even find him was a question Steve wanted to be answered.

"I've been searching for you, Jobs. Can we move somewhere private? I need to discuss something life changing with you." Henry then invited Steve as the place was not suitable for the discussion they were about to have.

Steve hesitated about it a little bit, but then he replied, "Let me finish my work first, otherwise my boss will be mad if he finds out. It'll just be about 10 minutes."

Henry agrees as he wasn't in a hurry. He then stands there looking at Steve as he fixes a circuit board. As Henry was looking at how Jobs was fixing the board, he thought about the Atari Company itself.