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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. immediately, everyone wanted one. >> woz was the technical genius and jobs was the mar...

Television set. >> right. >> almost nobody would say we are going to take technology to this point. its much more chaotic. things rise, bubble, and fall back. great ideas pop out. nobody can find a use, goes away. it is a confluence of developments that are all happening at the same 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 into your hand and a combination tv/vcr that fits into your purse o...

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. >> high resolution, more storage and greater expandability than ibms pc. >> ibms entry heated up an already volatile market. one industry innovator, o...

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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 same time. >> maul sp part isible are the watch words for the 90s for manufacturers showing their wears in chicago this week. sony has camcorder that fits sb 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 half the fun of owning a computer....

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...

>> 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 what to do. it would not always create the right result...

>> 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 ahead of it. >> eventually i want to be able to carr...

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 which led to faster which led to ch...

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. immediately, everyone wanted one. >> woz was the technical genius and jobs was the marketing genius. >> you needed both of those kinds of mindsets to actually mak...