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>> 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 computer, you could make them yourself. >> there was a lot of this revolutionary theme with a lot of the technical people in it, changes in technology and how we were part of it even though in our companies we were the fringe element. we are not the managers and leaders but boy, just a clever design on its own had value. >> you have these guys like steve jobs and steve wozniak and bill gates and paul allen who had been messing ar...

>> it is lower prices that helped the tremendous boom in home computer sales but 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 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,...

>> almost nobody can say, we're going to take technology to this point. it's much more chaotic. things rise, ball, bubble and fall back. great ideas pop out but nobody can find a use for it, so it goes away. it is a confluence of developments that are all happening at the same time. >> small and portable are the watchwords for the '90s according to manufacturers showing their wares in chicago this week. sony has 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 one of these, but you don't have one of these, you'r...

That these things the hobbyists were doing could lead to this whole new kind of product called the personal computer. >> it was at a home brewed computer club where steve wozniak and steve jobs first displayed the computer they had been working on and it caused a sensation. >> we had absolutely no idea what people were going to do with these things when we started out. matter of fact, the two people it was designed for was woz and myself, because we couldn't afford to buy a computer kit on the market. we got to working, showed our friends. immediately, everyone wanted one. >> woz was the techn...

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 some place 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, then it's going to be a new world out there. >> computer stores have become the neighborhood soda ...