if all goes according to plan, columbia, this nation s first space shuttle will fly like a skylark next march. if the shuttle program works the way it s designed to, it will be a technological marvel like that of the moon. a space shuttle. new systems, new technology. fly by wire system. you don t have pulleys and cables, all done by electronics, all by commands coming through a computer. built as the world s first reusable spaceship, carrying satellites and scientists. the most important thing was the digital revolution of faster, more powerful computers with complex software. computers are absolutely necessary to fly a spacecraft like the shuttle. it s the most sophisticated, most complex system that has been put into space yet.
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using a palm-sized unit called a mouse. it was the first time that a machine was versatile. 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 everything. untrained, non-technical people. stores around the country put them on sale today, and analyst say it s a good bet that mcintosh could soon be the biggest apple of the industry s eye. it s got its form, eventually i want to be able to carry my mac around with me, walk around with it in my pocket. you really like that mac. would you trade it for an ibm? are you kiddin ? as material sciences progress, more and more circuitry keeps getting put on smaller and smaller chips, circuit boards. so the closer together elements on a chip are, the faster motion of signals between them. there s something called moore s law, named for gordon moore.
it is lower prices that has helped the tremendous boom. 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 the personal computer was getting serious when the competition started. compaq. this is the one 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 last month. and apple, the industry s number one 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 have to be better than the other guy. there are 150 micro computer businesses, and all of them want 50% of the market, and that just isn t going to happen. but when you have high blood pressure
computer screen just to see if they could do did. steve jobs hears about some of this work going on at this lab and wants a look. zblienchts examiner ox park was an invention place, place, xerox bark was a renovation place. it was different and more communicative than anything he d seen before. he knew 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 built. famously, a computer for the rest of us. 1984. the ridley scott commercial for the mcintosh. it depicted of the ibm scarey leader on the big screen saying that this tiny little company, apple, is going to destroy the reigning power.