Between the time phase of 1969 and 1984, a Roman Catholic priest was in charge of teaching the students of the Reed College in the city of Portland. One of the most eminent people who had come out of Reed College is a man called Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple. Before dropping out of college, he had attended the calligraphy classes taken by Father Palladino. According to the latest reports of the New York Times, Father Palladino was the main inspiration for Jobs to create the most artistic font settings seen on any Apple device or any personal computer or laptop.

The Father was not only a Roman Catholic Priest, but had also mastered the art of calligraphic writing, being a Trappist Monk too. Before the inspiration turned to reality at the hands of Jobs, computers had the type settings inspired by the IBM punch card. Later, after Jobs first introduced the font type in his Mac, others took up the type settings and thus, new more artistic font types showed up in all forms of personal computers.

When Jobs had actually dropped out of college in the year 1972, he had the chance of auditing some of the Father’s classes. Much later, in the year 2005, in a speech he had given in Stanford, Jobs actually mentioned the Priest and talked about his contribution towards revolutionizing the font types used in modern day personal computers.

According to reports, Father Palladino was also consulted by Jobs when he created the very first Greek type writing and installed it in the Mac Book. On a certain occasion, when Father Palladino was interviewed and asked about Steve Jobs, he simply said that the young boy took his class and got very interested with calligraphic letter forms. Just a year later, Jobs was interested in the Greek alphabets.

Taking into consideration the inspiration Father Palladino was in shaping the modern computer, it’s quite ironic that he had never used or owned a personal computer.