A RECENTLY DISCOVERED video copy of a 1995 interview with Steve Jobs shows the Apple co-founder at a healthier time, not long before he rejoined and revitalised the company.

There doesn’t appear to be much new in “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview,” which is being shown at Landmark theatres in 19 cities around the US starting on 16 November.

In a copy viewed by The Associated Press on Tuesday, Jobs discusses topics such as how he got interested in computers as a child, his anger at being ousted from Apple in 1985 after a clash with then-CEO John Sculley, and his irritation with competitor Microsoft Corp. — subjects that have been covered elsewhere, and extensively in Walter Isaacson’s recently released “Steve Jobs: A Biography.”

Ten minutes of the footage originally appeared in the 1995 PBS miniseries “Triumph of the Nerds”:

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The master tapes disappeared but an unedited VHS copy of the interview was recently found in “Triumph of the Nerds” director Paul Sen’s garage.

Jobs and co-founder Steve Wozniak started Apple in 1976 and left in 1985. Jobs returned in 1997 and is credited with rescuing Apple from dire financial straits.

The video does give a look at a healthier version of Jobs — who died in October at age 56 after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer — than many people have seen in years.

On camera, his face looks full and he sports a shaggy head of dark brown hair, along with his signature black mock turtleneck and rimless glasses. At the time, Jobs was running a company called NeXT Computer, which Apple bought in 1996 for its operating software.

Here is some of the footage from the interviews that appeared in “Triumph of the Nerds”:

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In the copy viewed Tuesday, “Triumph of the Nerds” maker Robert Cringely introduces the footage and poses questions to Jobs off camera.

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