The speech, which took place at the International Design Conference in Aspen, has been previously documented, but the Q&A session that followed the speech was left out. Now, tech has digitized a recording of the speech for the world to hear.

"We are putting a lot of computers out that are made to be used in a standalone mode, one person, one computer," said Jobs. "But it isn't very long before you're going to get a community of users that want to hook them all together. Because ultimately, computers are going to be a tool for communication."

"Apple's strategy is really simple," Jobs continued. "What we want to do is we want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes. That's what we want to do and we want to do it this decade. And we really want to do it with a radio link in it so you don't have t hook up to anything and you're in communication with all of these larger databases and other computers."

Jobs' ambitious aim to make a tablet within the 1980s was about 27 years out. Alternatively, Jobs may have been referring to a MacBook, however, as The Next Web, Jobs spoke about mobile pocketable computers.

Jobs also spoke about an idea that would eventually become the App Store. "Where we'll be going in transmitting this stuff electronically over the phone line. So where when you wanna buy a piece of software we'll send tones over the phone to transmit directly from computer to computer, that's what we'll be doing."