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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 you would like the see it do? >> we would love to have it in a book right now 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. >> this is an experimental office system at the xerox research center in california. >> what ...

Especially for playing pacman. >> a small snag in computer marketing has been what is called technophobia. fear of these bloodless little wizards. the manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them what 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 down shift and press -- >> 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...

Crazy out there ideas which included the mouse and overlapping windows and fonts and graphics on the computer screen. just to see if they could do it. 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 graphical user 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 compu...

The first one to put a basic on the microcomputer that caused me to drop out. >> if you don't have one, you will be amazed what these little gadgets can do. >> the idea was that ordinary people might have a use for computers. now, it took a while to figure out what those uses might be. >> the main thing was spreadsheets and word processing. the computer was the best typewriter you could ever have. it gave you a new way to write. you could change things around and check your spelling and it would always look perfect. >> bottom line numbers. >> my dad had the large ledger sheets, done them all b...