Amaya Toman 25. April year 1990 se Steve Jobs decided to shut down Pixar's hardware division. It meant, among other things the end for computers Pixar Image Computer. These expensive machines were to find their application mainly in government organizations or in the field of medicine. Computers were real for their time efficiently and in many ways beat the competition but too well they didn't sell. Jobs sold the hardware division for two million dollars California company Vicom Systems.
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Steve Jobs, who left Apple in 1985, bought the division Pixar (then still Graphics Group) in early 1986 from the company Lucasfilm – Pixar published it at the time five million dollars, another five million was the capital to the company. The longtime dream of Pixar's founders was to create feature-length computer-animated films. During the development of the Pixar Image Computer, he still ran the company George Lucas The computer saw the light of day three months after when Steve Jobs bought back his stake in the company. The price of the computer was 135 thousand dollars, it was still needed for its functioning work station from Sun Microsystems or Silicon Graphics among others 35 thousand dollars. U second generation Pixar Image Computer did succeed significantly reduce the price, but even that did not increase his sales. IN April year 1990 the company had only three hundred computers sold – the main customers included, among others, the company Disney.
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From animation to hardware and back again
When the five-member team Pixar Animation Group acquired in 1989 Oscar for his animated short film Tin toy, Jobs turned his attention to this area. At the same time, he originally wanted to end the creation of animated pictures within Pixar - it seemed to him that it did not bring any profit - and focus on selling hardware. But the mentioned events forced Jobs to reconsider his opinion. At first the situation did not look good at all - three years after Pixar stopped making computers, met same fate and Jobs' company NeXT. But Pixar's return to animated production paid off - in the year 1995 the now legendary animated film came to the cinema screens Toy Story (Toy Story). Feature directorial debut John Lasseter was the first film in history to be completely by computer animated. Toy Story was met with enthusiastic reception from audiences and experts alike, and launched star era of Pixar.
