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They call user-friendly. >> isn't that pretty. now what do i do? >> making computers easy enough to use for a beginner, it wasn't always true. people have never encountered this stuff. >> hold downshift. >> so there is a great disconnect between the ambitions of the apples and microsofts and the realities of people trying to use these things for the first time. >> right now, if you buy a computer system and you want to solve one of your problems, we 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 ove...

Steve jobs hears about some of the work going on at this lab and he wants a look. >> xerox park was an invention place. apple was an innovation place. steve was very visual and could see right away the visual graphic interface was different and more communicative than anything he had seen before. he knew it was effective because it was affecting him. >> jobs realizes this is the future of computing. this is a whole different kind of computer to be built. famously, a computer for the rest of us. >> 1984, the ridley scott commercial for the macintosh. >> it depicted a very thinly disguised repre...

If all goes according to plan, "columbia" will soar like a skylark next month. >> if the shuttle program works the way it's designed to work it will be a technological feat rivaling america's visit to the moon. a major moment in the history of flight. >> the space shuttle had new systems, new technology, primary things. you don't have pulleys and cables, it's all done by electronics. all the commands go through a computer. >> it was built as the world's first reusable spaceship. one that would commute to space, carrying scientists and satellites. >> the most important thing was the digital rev...

The end of this year. by 1990, the number could be two out of three. >> we knew the personal computer was getting serious when the competition started, because when you have competition, innovation gets stimulated. >> compaq. >> atari. >> this is the one. >> high resolution, more storage and greater expandability than ibm's pc. >> ibm's entry heated up an already volatile market. one industry innovator, osborn computer, was forced into bankruptcy court last month. and apple, the industry's number one in small computers, had to concede it was now number two behind ibm. >> all of a sudden, you w...

It will just 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 big, ugly, difficult to use inventions when they first came out. >> it would crash and you had 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. >> take little steps. don't take big steps. >> everybody kind of agreed that this could be the next great thing after the printing press if we do it right. it's not ...