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Needed then. >> 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 generally 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 ...

The white collar work force, less than 5% now use computers mostly because of their complexity. macintosh is designed for simplicity, using a palm-sized unit called a mouse. >> it was the first time a machine was personal, it was simple, it was friendly. >> it took the computer out of the exclusive domain of geeks and nerds and people who had memorized those commands and put it on the desk of everybody, untrained non-technical people. >> stores around the country put them on sale today and analysts say it's a good bet that macintosh could soon be the biggest apple of the industry's eye. >> it'...

>> 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 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...

The personal computer. >> it was at a home brewed computer club where steve wozniak and steve jobs first displayed the computer they had been networking 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. o'and we got it working. with showed some of our friends. immediately, everyone wanted one. >> woz was the technical genius and jobs was the marketing genius. >> you needed both of thos...

You will be able to take this to any american city and call virtually anyplace in the world and its maker, motorola says a smaller version than this will be on the market next year. >> the first cell phones looked like soviet army field telephones. they were these huge lunch boxes you hold up to your head. >> this is just the birth of this industry. all inventions start out in a very rough state. and whether it's computers or cell phones, it took awhile to refine them and make them into something that all of us use. >> you look at the bottom of your screen, it says please press. >> to defend t...