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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 and very human and will seduce you into learning how to use it. >> random access memory is internal memory built inside of this computer. >> these new computers were rough, big, ugly, difficult to use inventions when they first came out. >> it would crash and you would have to figure out what to do. it would not always create the right results. so it really did take a mindset of someone willing to cut it some slack. >> small steps, don't take big steps. ...

Take this technology to this point. it's much more chaotic. things rise and bubble and fall back and great ideas pop out, but nobody can find a use for it. it's a confluence of developments happening at the right time. >> small and portable are the watch words for the 90s showing their wares in chicago this week. sony has a new camcorder that fits in your hand and a combination tv-vcr that goes into your purse or case. >> if you have one of these and have one of these and don't have one of these, you are missing half the fun of owning a computer. you can turn your computer into a window on the...

They are talking about sex. >> are you an adult? >> what she does is she loads pictures, mostly x-rated pictures into her computer. and then customers anywhere in the world can call up laura's lair and see on their home computer this list. 15,000 descriptions of photos in language that's not always suitable for tv. >> pornography is always the first to make money on any new technology and not just technology since computers. i mean, since the beginning. >> laura's customers pay to transfer these photos from her computer through the phone lines to their computer. >> okay, here it comes. >> how ...

>> one of the things that was really hard about making a computer was now on a chip. so all of a sudden, people who had a thirst for this stuff could go out and buy a home brew computer. you could make them yourself. >> there was a lot of this kind of revolutionary thing with a lot of the technical people who were into the changes in technology and how we were a part of it. even though at our companies we were generally the fringe element. we had the jeans and we're not the managers and the leaders. but boy, just a clever design on its own had value. >> you had these guys like steve jobs and s...

Computer fair, the speed of development in this industry is so great that each fair virtually outdates the previous one. >> when it is lower prices that have helped the tremendous boom in home computer sales, about one home in ten will have a computer by the end of this year. by 1990, the number could be two out of three. >> we knew that the personal computer was getting serious when the competition started. because when you have competition, innovation gets stimulated. >> compaq. atari home computer. >> kaypro gives you the complete computer. >> higher resolution. great other expandability th...