using these things. it s not at 1984ish vision. it s going to be very human and very gradual and seduce you into how to use it. random access memory is internal memory built inside of this computer. these new computers were rough, 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 t did take a mind-set of someone willing to cut it some slack. don t take big steps. everybody kind of agreed their could be the next big thing after the printing press if we do did right. it s not just having a machine. the world needed to be made better. those are the things that actually can lift a society into a new way of thinking. industry experts say we re no longer on the verge of the personal computer revolution. we re right in the midst of it thank you. and it s gathering steam with
computer. it will, they say, give credibility to home computers. they ll no longer be just another new gadget. ibm has set an objective to build the office of the future. before ibm came in, companies would not think about buying personal computers, but suddenly, when ibm s selling one it becomes a safer decision. ibm personal computer is stiend for office, school or home use, aimed at exactly the same market as its competitors. when ibm started developing the ibm pc, it needed an operating system. and this young guy named bill gates had started this little company called microsoft. bill gates was that unusual combination of a tech guy who was as good as the best tech guys but had a business sense, and a business vision. at the time, everyone was making it up as they went along. there was nothing that came before it. there was no personal computer industry. so when gates said to ibm, how about this?
wizards. manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them what they call user-friendly. isn t that pretty? now what do i do? making computers easy enough to use for a beginner, it wasn t 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 solve one of your problems, we immediately throw a big problem right in the middle of you and your problem, which is learning how to use the computer. substantial problem to overcome. once you overcome that, it s a phenomenal tool. steve jobs thought that a computer should require no technical skill. he thought that it should be capable of generating artistic
when the chip makers realized the things that the hobbyists were doing could lead to a new product called the personal computer. it was at a club where they displayed the computer they d been working on, and it caused a sensation. we had absolutely no idea what people were going to do with 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 couldn t afford to buy a computer kit on the market. we got it working and showed it to our friends and everybody wanted one. woz was the technical genius and jobs was the marketing genius, and you needed both of those kinds of mind-sets to make this new technology work and create this company out of thin air, called apple. since the apple computer company was founded five years ago, its sales have sky rocketed from $100,000 to $100 million. with the most popular type write other-sized computer on the market. steven jobs is 26 years old and sees his computer s future as
if you don t have one, you 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 mane 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 thing around. and check your spelling. it would always look perfect. bottom line numbers. my dad had the large ledger sheets and i remember taking a computer to show them. and and i remember taking a computer to show him a spreadsheet. and suddenly, he understood the value of a personal computer. there was a drastic mind-set 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 is so great that each fair outdates the previous one.