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This is a short part taken from a book about Steve Jobs. Listen and read.
Steve Jobs always loved machines. His father, Paul, repaired machines for a
living. As a child, Steve loved to watch his dad build and fix things.
When Steve grew up, he started a company that produced machines. Not just
any machines, but a machine Steve was sure would soon become part of daily life,
just like cars and TV sets. What was this machine?
A personal computer.
Today, millions of people own personal computers. But back in the 1970s nobody did.
The first modern computer appeared in 1938. A computer created in 1946 was as big as a
room! When Steve was a kid, computers were still too big and complicated for the average person
to use. The government used them to gather information.
Steve wanted to change that. Steve and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computers in
the Jobses'garage. Their computer, the Apple II, was the hit of a West Coast computer fair in 1977.
Why?
It looked fun to use.
In 1979, Steve visited the research center of the tech company Xerox. It was in Palo Alto,
California. He walked around, looking at the new computers the engineers were working on.
What's that?' Steve asked one man. He pointed to a small gadget by a computer. When the
engineer moved the gadget with his hand, an arrow on the computer screen moved, too.
This is a point-and-click graphical user interface, the man explained. That sure was a
complicated name for a gadget that was so simple - yet so amazing. Every time the man moved
the pointer to a picture on the screen and clicked, it opened a program on the computer.
Steve stared at the little gadget.
Computers were operated by punching in keys on a keyboard. To work the computer, you
had to know the right keys to push. This little gadget made using the computer so much easier.
Steve couldn't believe it. He imagined having something similar for his computers.
When are you going to sell it?, he asked the engineer.
'We're not, he said. It's fun, but there's no market for it!
Steve Jobs didn't agree. As he stared at the little gadget, he could see the future rolling out
in front of him. Billions of people pointing and clicking on their home computers. He would have
to improve the gadget. He would make it better. And he wouldn't call it'point-and-click graphical
user interface! He would call it by its friendlier nickname: the mouse.
That day, he learned the world was going to
change. And he, Steve Jobs, was going to make it
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happen.
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1- answer the questions according to the text

a) what did steve's father do?

b) how were computers when steve was a kid?

c) what did the government use the computers for?​

Answer 1

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