He was rich for having invented the 9-track cassette,

发明了9轨磁带因被8轨磁带厂商买通
which the 8-track industry paid to keep quiet.

不要声张而一夜暴富
He funneled that wealth into a computer school called Greendale,

把所得资产倾注给格林德尔电脑学校
Where he obsessively pursued a new project,

在这里他继续研究新项目
a machine that can process feelings.

一台可以处理情感的机器
He apparently used nothing but gold to assemble his circuitry,

这些电路明显都是金子造的
Believing it to be a better conductor of human emotion.

他觉得金可以更好传导人类情感
It was a weird time. The bionic woman won an Emmy.

那个诡异的时代仿生女得了个艾美奖
Rumors spread about his relationship with computers,

他与机器恋爱的谣言四起
And one day, he disappeared,

突然有一天他消失了
Hence the legend that he died of the first computer virus.

因首位死于电脑病毒他成为传奇
The city bought the campus, and life went on.

政府买下学校生活继续