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 shops of the binary generation. the disciples, young and old, of smart machines. companies that were starting to build personal computers, companies like atari, commodore, apple, began to see them as a home market and it was starting to seep into the public consciousness. personal computers have become the business of at least 25 manufacturers with three companies, radio shack, apple and commodore, grabbing three-quarters of the market.
when the big, giant, impersonal machine that lives in a huge, air conditioned room someplace 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 hospitals, into our businesses, then it s going to be a new world out there. computer stores have become the neighborhood soda shops of the binary generation. the disciples, young and old of smart machines. companies that were starting to build personal computers, companies like atari, tandy, commodore, began to see them as a public market. personal computers have been the business of at least 25 manufacturers, with three companies, radioshack, apple and commodore grabbing three quarters of the market.
and it was a threatening concept. 1980s is a period of time when the big, giant, impersonal machine that lives in a huge, air conditioned room someplace 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 shops of the binary generation. the disciples, young and old of smart machines. companies that were starting to build personal computers, companies like atari, tandy, commodore and apple began to see them as a public market. personal computers have been
8os, the general image of the computer was always this giant machine with little things all over it. the mind-set was the computer as the brain. and it was a threatening concept. 1980s is a period of time when the big, giant, impersonal machine that lives in a huge, air conditioned room someplace 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 hospitals, into our businesses, then it s going to be a new world out there. computer stores have become the neighborhood soda shops of the by nary generation. the disciples, young and old of smart machines. companies that were starting to build personal computers, companies like atari, tandy, commodore, began to see them as
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 shops of the binary generation. the disciples, young and old, of smart machines. companies that were starting to build personal computers, companies like atari, commodore, apple, began to see them as a home market and it was starting to seep into the public consciousness. personal computers have become the business of at least 25 manufacturers with three companies, radio shack, apple and commodore, grabbing three-quarters of the market. this personal computer costs about $1400 and fits nicely on a