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Using a palm-sized unit called a mouse. >> it was the first time that a machine was personal, it was simple, it was friendly. >> it took the computer out of the exclusive domain of geeks and nerds and people who had memorized the commands and put it on the desk of everybody. untrained, nontechnical people. >> stores around the country put them on sale today, and analysts say its a good bet that macintosh could soon be the biggest apple of the industrys eye. >> its got its best years ahead of it,...

Will be amazed what these little gadgets can do. >> the idea was that ordinary people might have a use for computers. now, it took a while to figure out what those uses might be. >> the main thing was spreadsheets and word processing. the computer was the best typewriter you could ever have. it gave you a new way to write. you could change things around. and check your spelling. it would always look perfect. >> my dad had the large ledger sheets, done them all by hand, and i remember taking a co...

The manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them what they call user-friendly. >> isnt that pretty? now what do i do? >> making computers easy enough to use for a beginner, it wasnt always true. people had never encountered this stuff. >> hold down shift and press -- >> so there was a great disconnect between the ambitions of the apples and microsofts and the realities of people trying to use these things for the first time. >> right now, if you buy a computer system and you want to so...

Just to see if they could do it. >> steve jobs hears about some of this work going on at this lab, and he wants a look. >> xerox park was an innovation place, apple was an innovation place. steve was very visual. and he could see right away the graphic user interface was different and more communicative than anything hed seen before. he knew that it was effective, but was affecting him. >> jobs realizes, this is the future of computing. this is a whole different kind of computer to be built. fam...

To computers is it is a power tool that gives me power that i feel i should have had, but nature left me without. and i can now exploit more of my potential with a computer. [ music: "bygones" by oliver ]

Computer club where steve wozniak and steve jobs first displayed the computer theyd been working on. and it caused a sensation. >> we had absolutely no idea what people were going to do to these things when we started out. as a matter of fact, the two people who it was designed for was woz and myself, because we couldnt afford to buy a computer kit on the market. we got it working and showed it to some of our friends. and of course immediately everybody wanted one. >> woz was the technical geniu...

>> does anyone say anything meaningful and useful? >> its a lot of social banter and a way to meet friends and talk about interests. >> we worry about people falling in love and getting married. >> my very first time. the modem dialling and heres a chat room with 12 other people typing in realtime from wherever they happened to be blew me away. >> there is tremendous demand. if you look at the online services and bulletin boards, there is right literally a cult. >> what the computer was. >> sinc...

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Endeavors and not just number-crunching business things. >> is there anything that youd like to see? >> wed love to have it in a book right now, you know, about this size, but thats technically impossible. >> steves like, i want to make a friendly computer, a computer that comes from a different kind of place, that owes its inspiration to people who are thoughtful and creative and human and humane. >> morning, chris. this is an experimental office system of the xerox research center in palo alto...

Three-quarters of the market. this personal computer costs about $1,400 and fits nicely on a desk corner. duplicating its performance five years ago would have cost $75,000 and involve the unit the size of a large refrigerator. >> when the average american thought computer, they thought ibm. it made these mainframe computers that ran pretty much everything. >> ibm was one of the most powerful corporations in america. and in technology, it was the most powerful company that had ever existed in te...