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>> right. >> almost nobody would say we are going to take technology to this point. its much more chaotic. things rise, ball, bubble and fall back. it is a confluence of developments that are all happening at the right time. >> small and portable are the watch words for the 90s for manufacturers showing their wares in chicago this week. sony has a new camcorder that fits into your hand and a combination tv/vcr that fits into your purse or briefcase. >> if you have one of these and one of these y...

Machine with little things all over it. the mindset was the computer as the brain and it was a threatening concept. >> the 1980s is a period of time when the big impersonal giant machine that lives in a huge air-conditioned room someplace suddenly becomes something that sits on your desk. >> something is happening out there. something thats expanding your world. small computers are happening. >> as soon as we have intelligent machines creeping into our daily lives, into our factories, into our h...

To build personal computers, companies like atari, commodore, apple, began to see them as a home market and it was starting to seep into the public consciousness. >> personal computers have become the business of at least 25 manufacturers with three 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 involved a u...

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 to 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 huma...

Needed then. >> one of the things that was really hard about making a computer was now on a chip. so all of a sudden, people who had a thirst for this stuff could go out and buy a computer, you could make them yourself. >> there was a lot of this revolutionary theme with a lot of the technical people in it, changes in technology and how we were part of it even though in our companies we were generally the fringe element. we are not the managers and leaders but boy, just a clever design on its ow...

The white collar work force, less than 5% now use computers mostly because of their complexity. macintosh is designed for 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 analy...

>> two, maybe. >> right. you use the automatic bank telling machines? >> sure. >> so life is already seducing you into learning this stuff. its not going to happen at once and its certainly not a 1984-ish vision at all. it will just 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 big, ugly, difficult to use inventions when they first came out. >> it would crash an...

The personal computer. >> it was at a home brewed computer club where steve wozniak and steve jobs first displayed the computer they had been networking on and it caused a sensation. >> we had absolutely no idea what people were going to do with these things when we started out. matter of fact, the two people it was designed for was woz and myself, because we couldnt afford to buy a computer kit on the market. oand we got it working. with showed some of our friends. immediately, everyone wanted ...

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 something...