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Things rise and bubble and fall back and great ideas pop out but nobody can find a use for it so it goes away. 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 camcorder that fits in your hand and a combination tv/vcr that fits into your purse or briefcase. >> if you have one of these and one of these but you dont have one of these you are missing...

Simple, it was friendly. >> it took the computer out of the exclusive domain of geeks and nerds and people who had merized 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, walk away with it in my pocket. >...

Machine that lives in a huge air conditioned room some place 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 hospitals, into our businesses, then its going to be a new world out there. >> computer stores have become the neighborhood soda shops of the binary generation. the disciples, you...

>> 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 national mania. we are told miss the electronic boat and y...

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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 humane. >> this is an experimental office system at the xerox research center in palo, alto, california. >>...

Electronic gadgets from wrist watches to microwave ovens. >> the mushrooming industry gives birth to a high tech cult and a place called silicon valley. >> the magic part of silicon valley is that there is this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox and stanford university. that was a hell of a powerful combination. >> there were these two cultures, engineers with ph.d.s and hobbyists. >> it was a time when there was a lot of...

>> it is lower prices that helped the tremendous boom in home computer sales but 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. >> this is the one. kaypro. >> high resolution, more storage and greater expandability than ibms pc. >> ibms entry heated up an already volatil...

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 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 li...

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 expensive to manufacture. so you had smaller w...