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Computer club where steve wozniak and steve jobs first displayed the computer they'd been working on. and it caused a sensation. >> we had absolutely no idea what people were going to do to 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. and we got it working and showed it to some of our friends. and of course immediately everybody wanted one. >> woz was the technical genius and jobs was the marketing genius. and you needed both of those kinds of mindsets to actuall...

Meaningful? >> their social banter. it's an area for people to just meet friends and talk about whatever their interest sarr. >> what about people falling in love and getting married? >> my very first time, i remember the modem dialing, and a chat room with 12 other people typing in real time from wherever they had to be, it blew me away. >> it's tremendous demand. if you look at the online services, bulletin board, there is liberty literally a hyper culture developing. >> it multiplies the power of what a computer was. >> computer service accessed, but check shopping online for christmas gift...

Three-quarters of the market. this personal computer costs about $1,400 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 these 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 ...

It is much more chaotic. things rise and bubble and fall back and great ideas pop out, but nobody can find a use for it so it goes away. it is a confluence of developments happening at the right time. >> small and portable for the 90s, according to manufacturers showing wares in chicago. sony has a new camcorder that fits in your hand and a combination tv and vcr that goes into your purse or briefcase. >> if you have one of these and you have one of these, you do not have one of these, you are missing half the fun of owning a computer. this is a modem and with it you can turn your computer int...

Capable of generating artistic endeavors and not just number-crunching business things. >> is there anything that you'd like to see? >> we'd love to have it in a book right now, you know, about this size, but that's technically impossible. >> steve's like, i want to make a friendly computer, a computer that comes from a different kind of place, that owes its inspiration to people who are thoughtful and creative and human and humane. >> morning, chris. >> this is an experimental office system of the xerox research center in palo alto, california. >> anything else? what about flowers? my anniver...