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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. >> dont shift. >> so there is a great disconnect between the ambitions of the apples and microsofts and th...

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 that all of us use. >> you look at the bottom of your scree...

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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 the fringe element. we are not the managers and leaders but boy, just a clever design on its own had value. >> you have these guys like steve jobs and steve wozniak and bill gates and paul allen who had been messing around on the edge...

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 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...

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. nothing says "treat yourself" like red lobsters holiday seafood celebration. so try new dishes like the new grand seafood feast, and the new wild-caught lobster & shrimp trio, with a lobster mac-and-cheese topped lobster tail. come trea...

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 computing. this is a whole different k...

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...

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 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 p...

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 and you had to figure out w...