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In the mid-1980s, Steve Jobs founded NeXT after being ousted from Apple, producing workstations priced at about ten thousand dollars each; the CIA procured tens of thousands of NeXT workstations for satellite imagery analysts, with the contract running from the late 1980s into the 1990s.
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