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Against the man in ibm. >> it is aimed at a largely untapped market of managers, professionals, and students. while they make up about 75% of the white collar workforce, less than 5% now use computers, mostly because of their complexity. macintosh is designed for simplicity. using a palm-sized unit called a 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 the commands and put it on the desk of everybody. untrained, nontechnical people. >> stores around...

>> heidi and steve did have a fairly new desktop computer, and that was never seized by the police. >> so to this day we have no idea what that hard drive on the home computer would've shown? >> no. >> so your guy is being charged with a contract killing but nobody can product the contract? >> no. >> reporter: not only did investigators not have any computer records, they didn't have a record of bennet's plane ticket, phone records, credit card receipts. eyewitnesses who saw bennett and cooke together -- not even the murder weapon. stephen's sister, kim. >> all you have is a confessed murderer...

Immediately throw a big problem right in the middle of you and your problem, which is learning how to use the computer. substantial problem to overcome. once you overcome that, it's a phenomenal tool. >> steve jobs thought that a computer should require no technical skill. he thought that it should be 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 co...

For example, with a free flow of information, can someone tap into my home computer and invade my privacy? will electronic mail eventually lead to electronic junk mail? will the stores as we know them today eventually disappear? and don't many shoppers really like squeezing the tomatoes? will we end up with a cashless paperless society? and do we really want one. these are the kinds of social questions which scientists say society should answer. we'll be doing for tv what f.m. did for radio. >> there are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. >> we like to call them tastefull...

Thin air called apple. >> since the apple computer company was founded five years ago, its sales have skyrocketed from $100,000 to more than $100 million. with the most popular typewriter-sized computer on the market today. steven jobs is 26 years old and he sees his computer's future as the future of mankind. >> how many calculators do you own? >> two, maybe. >> right. you use the automatic bank telling machines? >> sure. >> so life is already seducing you into learning this stuff. it's not going to happen at once and it's certainly not a 1984-ish vision at all. it's going to be very gradual ...