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Development in this industry is so great that each fair virtually outdates the previous one. >> it is lower prices that have helped the tremendous boom in home computer sales. about 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. >> kaypro gives you a complete computer. >> this is the one. >> high resolution, more storage and greater expandability than ibm's pc. >> ibm'...

Between them. there was something called moore's law, named for gordon law. one of the engineers who worked at intel. basically it was an observation computer engineers are getting to the point where they can essentially double the computer power of computer chips every 18 months or so. and this was what really made the power of computers explode in the 1980s, because every 18 months, these things were getting twice as good. >> you could basically put a whole computer on a chip, it was less expensive to manufacture. so you had smaller which led to faster which led to cheaper. >> under any othe...

Strong tendency on the part of people who were about to buy a computer, should i buy the computer today? no, in fact if i wait six months for the same money i can get twice the computer. >> the reason why we are attracted to computers, because it is a power tool that gives me power that i feel i should have had but nature left me without. and i can now explore more of my potential with a computer. this is the story of john smith. not this john smith. or this john smith. or any of the other hundreds of john smiths that are humana medicare advantage members. no, it's this john smith. who we pair...

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>> this personal computer costs about $1400 and fits nicely on a desk corner. duplicating its performance just five years ago would have cost $75,000 and involve a unit the size of a large refrigerator. >> when the average american thought computer they thought ibm. it made mainframe computers that ran pretty much everything. >> ibm was one of the most powerful corporations in america and in technology, it was the most powerful company that had ever existed in technology. >> because of this activity in personal computers, it started to make ibm look like it was somewhere behind the eight ball....