The Pixar Touch Journal Entry # 6

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1.) Catmull and Alvy Ray developed their own computer known as the Pixar Image Computer.
2.) Catmull and Ray tried to sell it to the medical industry but had difficulty in doing so.
3.) Tom and John Knoll were the men who created Photoshop.
4.) Pixar is a name derived from the Spanish slang word "Pixer."
5.) Pixar was still part of Lucasfilm when they made the Pixar Image Computer.


4 questions


1.) Why was Jobs so incosiderate and annoying?
2.) Why couldn't Jobs stay in the Bay Area?
3.) What's wrong with the Bay Area?
4.) What inspired Jobs to joing Apple?


3 vocabulary words


1.) Schematics - A structural or procedural diagram, especially of an electrical or mechanical system Pg. 77
2.) Ambience - a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement" Pg. 78
3.) Monetary - of or pertaining to the coinage or currency of a country Pg. 77


2 literary techniques


1.) "The brothers, Tom and John Knoll, later licensed their software to Adobe Systems; it went on to fame under the name Photoshop." This is dramatic irony because during the time Photoshop was created, people weren't aware of how commonly used it will be used in the future. Pg. 73
2.) "One day he announced to this parents that if they didn't find another school for him by the next school year, he would stop going to school." This is man vs. society because Jobs didn't like his school nor did he like


1 summarizing sentence


1.) Steve Jobs was introduced into the story and Pixar is becoming an