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Wristwatches to microwave ovens. >> it gives birth to a new high-tech cult and a place called silicon valley. >> the magic part of silicon valley is that there was this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. >> silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox park and the university. that was a hell of a powerful combination. >> there were these two cultures engineered with ph.d.s and hobbyists. >> it was a time when there was a lot of social friday volumity. there was a lot of counterculture people. so you had cheap semi-conductors. people that would look at things diffe...

And the button-down business guys ended up coming together when the chip makers realized the things that the hobbyists were doing could lead to a new product called the personal computer. >> it was at a club where they displayed the computer they'd been working on, and it caused a sensation. >> we had absolutely no idea what people were going to do with these things when we started out. as a matter of fact, the two people who it was designed for was woz and myself, because we couldn't afford to buy a computer kit on the market. we got it working and showed it to our friends and everybody wante...

Eggshell and smaller than a fingernail. >> this silicon chip supplies the brainpower for 1001 electronic gadgets from wristwatches to microwave ovens. >> it gives birth to a new high-tech cult and a place called silicon valley. >> the magic part of silicon valley is that there was this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. >> silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox park and the university. >> there were these two cultures engineered with ph.d.s and h hobbyists. >> there was a lot of counter culture people. so you had cheap semi-conductors. people that would look...

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 edges of what would become the personal computer industry but no one in corporate america and no one in most of the homes of america thought that the personal comput...

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 social environment in and around the area. there was a lot of counter culture people. you had cheap semiconductors, you had people who would look at things differently than what the conventional person was and that's ...