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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. and we got it working and showed it to some of our friends. and of course immediately everybody wanted one. >> woz was the technical g...

Meaningful? >> their social banter. its an area for people to just meet friends and talk about whatever their interest sarr. >> what about people falling in love and getting married? >> my very first time, i remember the modem dialing, and a chat room with 12 other people typing in real time from wherever they had to be, it blew me away. >> its tremendous demand. if you look at the online services, bulletin board, there is liberty literally a hyper culture developing. >> it multiplies the power ...

Three-quarters of the market. this personal computer costs about $1,400 and fits nicely on a desk corner. duplicating its performance just five years ago would have cost $75,000 and involve a 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...

It is much more chaotic. things rise and bubble and fall back and great ideas pop out, but nobody can find a use for it so it goes away. it is a confluence of developments happening at the right time. >> small and portable for the 90s, according to manufacturers showing wares in chicago. sony has a new camcorder that fits in your hand and a combination tv and vcr that goes into your purse or briefcase. >> if you have one of these and you have one of these, you do not have one of these, you are m...

Capable of generating artistic 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 ...

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 greate...

You into learning this stuff. its not going to happen at once and its certainly not a 1984-ish vision at all. its just going to be very gradual and very human and will seduce you into learning how to use it. >> random access memory is internal memory built inside of this computer. >> these new computers were rough, big, ugly, difficult to use inventions when they first came out. >> it would crash and you would have to figure out what to do. it would not always create the right results. so it rea...

Screen. 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 interface was different and more communicative than anything hed seen before. he knew that it was effective, because it was affecting him. >> jobs realizes, this is the future of computing. this is a whole different kind of computer to be ...

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 those 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, eventually i want to be able t...

There is a lot of chat about technology in business. youd expect that, but some of the conversation might surprise you. it is not just tech talk. they are talking about sex. >> are you an adult? >> what she does is she loads pictures, mostly x-rated pictures, into her computer. and then customers anywhere in the world can call up lauras lair and see on their home computer this list. 15,000 descriptions of photos in language thats not always suitable for tv. >> pornography is always the first to ...