最初，皮克斯公司希望硬件能带来收入。

　　The Pixar Image Computer sold for $125,000.

　　皮克斯图像电脑售价12.5万美元，

　　The primary customers were animators and graphic designers,

　　主要购买者是动画师和平面设计师，

　　but the machine also soon found specialized markets in the medical industry

　　不过这款电脑也在医疗行业和情报领域找到了特殊市场。

　　(CAT scan data could be rendered in three-dimensional graphics)

　　医疗CAT扫描数据能够被转换成三维图形

　　and intelligence fields (for rendering information from reconnaissance flights and satellites).

　　来自侦察飞机和卫星的信息也能通过该款电脑进行转换。

　　Because of the sales to the National Security Agency, Jobs had to get a security clearance,

　　由于要销售给美国国家安全局，乔布斯必须接受安全调查，

　　which must have been fun for the FBI agent assigned to vet him.

　　对于被指派来调查他的FBI特工来说一定感觉有趣极了。

　　双语有声读物 乔布斯传

　　At one point, a Pixar executive recalled,

　　据一位皮克斯髙管讲述，有一次，

　　Jobs was called by the investigator to go over the drug use questions, which he answered unabashedly.

　　调查员打来电话询问毒品使用问题，乔布斯如实回答，丝毫不加掩饰。

　　"The last time I used that...," he would say,

　　他会说“我上回用这种毒品是在……”，

　　or on occasion he would answer that no, he had actually never tried that particular drug.

　　偶尔他也会回答不，他从未用过那种毒品。

　　Jobs pushed Pixar to build a lower-cost version of the computer that would sell for around $30,000.

　　乔布斯要求皮克斯开发一款成本更低的图像电脑，售价在3万美元左右。

　　He insisted that Hartmut Esslinger design it, despite protests by Catmull and Smith about his fees.

　　他坚持由哈特穆特·艾斯林格进行设计，尽管卡特穆尔和史密斯对其收费价格表示反对。

　　It ended up looking like the original Pixar Image Computer,

　　最后，这款新电脑跟皮克斯图像电脑很相似，

　　which was a cube with a round dimple in the middle, but it had Esslinger's signature thin grooves.

　　是一个立方体，中间有一处圆形凹陷，但带有艾斯林格招牌式的纤细纹路。