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Development in this industry is so great that each fair virtually outdates the previous one. >> 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 the personal computer was getting serious when the competition started, because when you have competition, innovation gets stimulated. >> compaq. >> atari. >> kaypro gives you a complete computer. >...

Between them. there was something called moores law, named for gordon law. one of the engineers who worked at intel. basically it was an observation computer engineers are getting to the point where they can essentially double the computer power of computer chips every 18 months or so. and this was what really made the power of computers explode in the 1980s, because every 18 months, these things were getting twice as good. >> you could basically put a whole computer on a chip, it was less expen...

Strong tendency on the part of people who were about to buy a computer, should i buy the computer today? no, in fact if i wait six months for the same money i can get twice the computer. >> 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. this is the story of john smith. not this john smith. or this john smith. or any of the other hundr...

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>> 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 the most powerful company that had ever existed in technology. >> because of this acti...

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. >> dont shift. >> so there is 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 p...

If all goes according to plan, "columbia" will soar like a skylark next month. >> if the shuttle program works the way its designed to work it will be a technological feat rivaling americas visit to the moon. a major moment in the history of flight. >> the space shuttle had new systems, new technology, primary things. you dont have pulleys and cables, its all done by electronics. all the commands go through a computer. >> it was built as the worlds first reusable spaceship. one that would commut...

>> 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 humane. >> this is an experimental office system at the xerox research center in california. >> what flowers? my anniversary. i forgot. >> xerox in the 1980s was on...

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 ahead of it. >> eventually i want to be able to carry my mac around with me, wa...

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 that all of us use. >> you look at the bottom of your screen, it says please press. >> to defend the computer has become a...