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♪ ♪ ♪ the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars. and mike and carol worry over the bills. >> we went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology that's been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators, tv, oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. >> hello? i'm not here now, but my faithful machine is. >> there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the teleph...

♪ ♪ the average family home, cory practices her violin, christian plays with his cars and mike and carol worry over the bills. >> we went in with pretty much the same technology that's been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators. tv. oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. >> hello? i'm not here now but my faithful machine is. >> there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering mac...

Mouse. >> it was the first time that 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, nontechnical people. >> stores around the country put them on sale today, and analysts say it's a good bet that macintosh could soon be the biggest apple of the industry's eye. >> it's got its best years ahead of it, eventually i want to be able to carry my mac around with me, walk around with it in my pocket. >> pocket computer? >> yes. >> y...

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 analysts say it's a good bet that macintosh could soon be the biggest apple of the industry's eye. >> it's 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...

>> are you kidding? >> as material sciences progress, more and more circuitry keeps getting put on smaller and smaller chips, circuit boards. so the closer together elements on a chip are, the faster the motion of signals between them. >> there was something called moore's law, named for gordon moore, one of the engineers who worked at intel. basically an observation computer engineers are getting to the point where they can essentially double the computing power of a computer chip every 18 months or so. >> and this is what really made the power of computers explode in the 1980s. because every...