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Modern Icons: The Macintosh Classic

The document discusses the history of Apple and Steve Jobs, including the Macintosh Classic computer, Jobs' cofounding of Apple with Steve Wozniak, Jobs finding his biological sister Mona Simpson, Jobs growing up in Mountain View, California, and a logo designed in tribute to Jobs after his death.

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Modern Icons: The Macintosh Classic

The document discusses the history of Apple and Steve Jobs, including the Macintosh Classic computer, Jobs' cofounding of Apple with Steve Wozniak, Jobs finding his biological sister Mona Simpson, Jobs growing up in Mountain View, California, and a logo designed in tribute to Jobs after his death.

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1 The Macintosh Classic was the personal


computer which was made by Apple in 1990. It had
a 23 cm monochrome screen and a 4 megabyte (MB)
memory. It was cheaper than earlier Apple computers
and very easy to use. It was their first commercially
successful computer.

2 Stephen Wozniak is the American computer


engineer and programmer whose computer designs
became the original Apple I and Apple II computers.
He and Steve Jobs became friends when they were
both working at Hewlett Packard. They started making
computers in Jobs’s parents’ garage and together they
founded Apple Computers (now Apple Inc.) in 1976.

English File third edition Intermediate Student’s Book Unit 10A, pp.94–95 © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2013 1
3 Mona Simpson is Steve Jobs’s sister. Jobs was
adopted when he was born, but in the 1980s he found
his biological mother, who told him that he had a sister.
Mona and Steve met for the first time in 1985 (when
she was 25 and he was 30) and they became very close.
They kept their relationship secret for a year until Mona
introduced Steve as her brother at the party which she
gave to celebrate the publication of her first novel,
Anywhere But Here.

4 Mountain View is the area in California where


Steve Jobs grew up. He was born in San Francisco and
was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. When he was six
years old the family moved to Mountain View, which
was becoming a centre for electronics. People began to
call the area ‘Silicon Valley’ because silicon is used to
manufacture electronic parts.

5 This is the logo which was designed by


Jonathan Mak, a Chinese design student from Hong
Kong, as a tribute to Steve Jobs when he died. The
design, which used Jobs’s silhouette incorporated into
the ‘bite’ of a white Apple logo, became a worldwide
internet sensation. The teenager said that Jobs had
inspired him to become a designer.

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English File third edition Intermediate Student’s Book Unit 10A, pp.94–95 © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2013 2

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