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Overlapping windows and fonts and graphics on the computer screen. just to see if they could do it. steve jobs hears about some of the work going on at this lab and he wants a look. >> xerox park was an invention place. apple was an innovation place. steve was very visual and could see right away the visual graphic interface was different and more communicative than anything he had seen before. he knew it was effective because it was affecting him. >> jobs realizes this is the future of computin...

Companies, radio shack, apple and commodore, grabbing three-quarters of the market. >> this personal computer costs about $1400 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 mainframe computers that ran pretty much everything. >> ibm was one of the most powerful corporations in america and in technology, it was th...

Phone. you will be able to take this to any american city and call virtually anyplace in the world and its maker, motorola says a smaller version than this will be on the market next year. >> the first cell phones looked like soviet army field telephones. they were these huge lunch boxes you hold up to your head. >> this is just the birth of this industry. all inventions start out in a very rough state. and whether its computers or cell phones, it took awhile to refine them and make them into so...

Simplicity, using a palm-sized unit called a mouse. >> it was the first time 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 non-technical 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 far ...

To drop out. >> if you dont 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 awhile 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 and it would always look perfect. >> bottom line numbers. >> my dad had the lar...

>> the reason why we are attracted to computers, because 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 explore more of my potential with a computer. if all goes according to some people have minor joint pain, plus high blood pressure. and since pain relievers may affect blood pressure, they cant just take anything for their pain. tylenol® is the #1 dr. recommended pain relief brand for those with high blood pressure. if you have...

Computer should require no technical skill. he thought that it should be capable of generating artistic endeavors and not just number crunching business things. >> is there anything you would like the see it do? >> we would love to have it in a book right now 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 hum...

Especially for playing pacman. >> a small snag in computer marketing has been what is called technophobia. fear of these bloodless little wizards. 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 have never encountered this stuff. >> hold down shift and press -- >> so there is a great disconnect between the ambitions of the apples ...

Crazy out there ideas which included the mouse and overlapping windows and fonts and graphics on the computer screen. just to see if they could do it. steve jobs hears about some of the work going on at this lab and he wants a look. >> xerox park was an invention place. apple was an innovation place. steve was very visual and could see right away the visual graphical user interface was different and more communicative than anything he had seen before. he knew it was effective because it was affe...

The first one to put a basic on the microcomputer that caused me to drop out. >> if you dont 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 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 and it would ...