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>> 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 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 t...

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 steve wozniak and bill gates and paul allen messing around...

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 and very human and will sa deuce 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 cras...

'80s, the general image of the computer was always this giant machine with little things all 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 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, th...

>> almost nobody would say we are going to take technology to this point. it's much more chaotic. things rise and bubble and fall back. great ideas can pop out but nobody can find a use for it, so it goes away. it's a confluence of developments. they're all happening at the same time. >> small and portable are the watch words for the '90s for manufacturers showing their wares in chicago this week. sony has a new camcorder that fits into your hand and a combination tv/vcr that goes into your purse or briefcase. >> if you have one of these and you have one of these but you don't have one of thes...