He probably should have given Jobs a couple cases of this deodorant...
Posted on 11/19/2022 11:50:22 AM PST by nickcarraway
Allan Alcorn was desperate when he hired a young college dropout named Steve Jobs.
Atari, the fledgling computer games company he worked for, was scrambling to staff up after the sudden success of its first game, Pong. Now, here was a young hippie in sandals, waiting in reception and asking for a job as a technician.
“It was 1973 and there was this kid, maybe 18, who was just so passionate about technology – said his name was Steve Jobs,” Alcorn told The Post “So I hired him.” “He was kind of a pain to work with and he had this real problem with body odor, so we made him work nights,” Alcorn recalled of the man who would go on to found Apple
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I didn’t need to be told this. I have eyes.
In one of the bios (seems like Steve Levy wrote it, but a series of web searches turns up nothing) an anecdote appears — at Apple’s early address, important meetings were often just two or three people, face to face, in the parking lot. Jobs got asked into one of these by Markkula’s chosen manager, and instead of a usual chat about bills and expenses and such, he was told he had to take a shower, because no one could stand to have him in the building any longer. Same book talks about his weird eating habits (carotene poisoning from an almost-all-carrots diet; vegetarianism; fruitarianism; fasting), his going barefoot, LSD, the works. :^) It’s around here somewhere.
Maybe The Knack were fans of Willie Dixon, but I suspect they were Doors fans, and that’s where they got the album title.
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