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7Brennan (who was now a senior at Homestead) did not have plans to attend college, and was supportive of Jobs when he told her he planned to drop out of Reed because he did not want to spend his parents money on it (neither her father nor Jobss adoptive parents had gone to college). He continued to attend by auditing classes, including a course on calligraphy, but since he was no longer an official student, Brennan stopped visiting him. Jobs later asked her to come and live with him in a house he rented near the Reed campus, but she refused. He had started seeing other women, and she was interested in someone she met in her art class. Brennan speculates that the house was Jobss attempt to make their relationship monogamous again. 13 In a 2005 commencement speech for Stanford University, Jobs states that during this period, he slept on the floor in friends dorm rooms, returned Coke bottles for food money, and got weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. In that same speech, Jobs said: If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. 18I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There werent many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money ... There are people around here who start companies just to make money, but the great companies, well, thats not what theyre about.In 1972, Steve Wozniak designed his own version of the classic video game Pong. After finishing it, Wozniak gave the board to Jobs, who then took the game down to Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos, California. Atari thought that Jobs had built it and gave him a job as a technician. 20 21 Ataris cofounder Nolan Bushnell later described him as difficult but valuable, pointing out that he was very often the smartest guy in the room, and he would let people know that. 22In mid-1972, Jobs moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area and was renting his own apartment. Brennan states by this point that their relationship was complicated. I couldnt break the connection and I couldnt commit. Steve couldnt either. Jobs hitchhiked and worked around the West Coast and Brennan would occasionally join him. At the same time, Brennan notes, little by little, Steve and I separated. But we were never able to fully let go. We never talked about breaking up or going our separate ways and we didnt have that conversation where one person says its over. They continued to grow apart, but Jobs would still seek her out, and visit her while she was working in a health food store or as a live-in babysitter. They remained involved with each other while continuing to see other people. 13By early 1973, Jobs was living what Brennan describes as a simple life in a Los Gatos cabin, working at Atari, and saving money for his impending trip to India. Brennan visited him twice at the cabin. She states in her memoir that her memories of this cabin consist of Jobs reading Be Here Now (and giving her a copy), listening to South Indian music, and using a Japanese meditation pillow. Brennan felt that he was more distant and negative toward her. Brennan states in her memoir that she met with Jobs right before he left for India and that he tried to give her a 100 bill that he had earned at Atari. She initially refused to accept it but eventually accepted the money. 23Jobs traveled to India in mid-1974 24 to visit Neem Karoli Baba 25 at his Kainchi ashram with his Reed friend (and eventual Apple employee) Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. When they got to the Neem Karoli ashram, it was almost deserted because Neem Karoli Baba had died in September 1973. 21 Then they made a long trek up a dry riverbed to an ashram of Haidakhan Babaji. In India, they spent a lot of time on bus rides from Delhi to Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. 21After staying for seven months, Jobs left India 26 and returned to the US ahead of Daniel Kottke. 21 Jobs had changed his appearance his head was shaved and he wore traditional Indian clothing. 27 28 During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, later calling his LSD experiences one of the two or three most important things he had done in his life. 29 30 He spent a period at the All One Farm, a commune in Oregon and Brennan joined him there for a period. 13During this time period, both Jobs and Brennan became practitioners of Zen Buddhism through the Zen master Kbun Chino Otogawa. Jobs was living with his parents again, in their backyard toolshed which he had converted into a bedroom with a sleeping bag, mat, books, a candle, and a meditation pillow. 13 Jobs engaged in lengthy meditation retreats at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the oldest St Zen monastery in the US. 31 He considered taking up monastic residence at Eihei-ji in Japan, and maintained a lifelong appreciation for Zen. 32 Jobs would later say that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not fully relate to his thinking. 29Jobs then returned to Atari and was assigned to create a circuit board for the arcade video game Breakout. According to Bushnell, Atari offered US100 for each TTL chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little specialized knowledge of circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the fee evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to the amazement of Atari engineers, Wozniak reduced the TTL count to 46, a design so tight that it was impossible to reproduce on an assembly line. 33 According to Wozniak, Jobs told him that Atari gave them only 700 (instead of the 5,000 paid out), and that Wozniaks share was thus 350. 34 Wozniak did not learn about the actual bonus until ten years later, but said that if Jobs had told him about it and explained that he needed the money, Wozniak would have given it to him. 35Wozniak had designed a low-cost digital blue box to generate the necessary tones to manipulate the telephone network, allowing free long-distance calls. Jobs decided that they could make money selling it. The clandestine sales of the illegal blue boxes went well and perhaps planted the seed in Jobss mind that electronics could be both fun and profitable.