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 someplace suddenly becomes something that sits on your desk. something is happening out there, something that s 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 it s going to be a new world out there. computer stores have become the neighborhood soda shops of the binary generation. the disciples, young and old, of smart machines. companies that were starting to build personal computers, companies like atari, tandy, commodore, apple began to see them as a home market. and it was starting to seep into the public consciousness. personal computers have become the business of at least 25 manufacturers, with three companies radio shack, apple, and commodore grabbing
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Over it. 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 that s 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 it s going to be a new world out there. computer stores have become the neighborhood soda shops of the binary generation. the disciples, young and old, of smart machines. companies that were starting to build personal computers, companies like atari, commodore, tandy or apple, began to see them as a home market and it was starting to seep into the public consciousness. personal computers have 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 powerful corporations in america and in technology, it was the most powerful company that had ever existed in technology. because of this activity in personal computers, it started to make ibm look like it was somewhere behind the eight ball. they look at the apple ii and say we can make one of those. we build the computers that put america on the moon. we will get in that business, squash these guys, no problem. ibm, international business machines, has entered the small computer market for the first time. the idea of the small computer has become so big that the giant of computer companies,