the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars. and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology that s been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators, tv, oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now, but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you d be driving home and you d say, i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it had become part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california, americans are tuning out and tuning in. when i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. the walkman was huge. it s the latest fad. tiny st
the average family home, cory practices her violin, christian plays with his cars and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went in with pretty much the same technology that s been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators. tv. oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you would be driving home and you would say i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it becomes part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california, americans are tuning out and tuning in. when i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. the walkman was huge. it s the latest fad. tiny stereo casset
one. well, it is lower prices that have helped the tremendous boom in home computer sales. about one home in ten will have a computer by the end of this year. by 1990 the number could be two out of three. we knew that the personal computer was getting serious when the competition started. because when you have competition, innovation gets stimulated. compaq. atari home computer. kaypro gives you a complete computer. this is the one. higher resolution. more storage and greater expandability than ibm s pc. ibm s entry heated up an already volatile market. one industry innovator, osborne computer, was forced into bankruptcy court last month. and apple, the industry s number one in small computers, had to concede it was now number two, behind ibm. all of a sudden, you were in an old-fashioned competitive business in which you really had to be better than the other guy. there are 150 microcomputer companies and all of them want 10% of the market, and that just isn t goin
it is lower prices that helped the tremendous boom in home computer sales but one home in ten will have a computer by the end of this year. by 1990, the number could be two out of three. we knew the personal computer was getting serious when the competition started, because when you have competition, innovation gets stimulated. compaq. atari. this is the one. high resolution, more storage and greater expandability than ibm s pc. ibm s entry heated up an already volatile market. one industry innovator, osborn computer, was forced into bankruptcy court last month. and apple, the industry s number one in small computers, had to concede it was now number two behind ibm. all of a sudden, you were in an old-fashioned competitive business in which you really had to be better than the other guy. there are 150 microcomputer companies. all of them want 10% of the market. that just isn t going to happen.
there was a drastic mindset change in the whole country about what a computer was. and happened over a very short period of time. gather around and we ll tell you a lit bit more about the system. here at the west coast computer fair, the speed of development in this industry is so great that each fair virtually outdates the previous one. when it is lower prices that have helped the tremendous boom in home computer sales, about one home in ten will have a computer by the end of this year. by 1990, the number could be two out of three. we knew that the personal computer was getting serious when the competition started. because when you have competition, innovation gets stimulated. compaq. atari home computer. kaypro gives you the complete computer. higher resolution. great other expandability than ibm s pc. ibm s entry heated up an already volatile market. one industry innovator, osborne computer, was forced into bankruptcy court last month. and apple, the industry s