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 other field of consumer products, things get more expensive over time. milk, gasoline, houses. but not technology. one of the striking things about the development of especially hardware during the 1980s, was the fact that it was getting so much more powerful so rapidly that there developed 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 s got its best years far ahead of it. eventually i want to be able to carry my mac around with me, walk away with it in my pocket. you really do like that mac. you would trade it for an ibm? are you kidding? as materials sciences progressed, more and more circuitry keeps getting put on smaller and smaller chips, circuit boards, so the closer together elements on a chip are, the faster the motion of signals between them. there was something called moore s law, named for gordon law. one of the engineers who worked
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 other field of consumer products, things get more expensive over time. milk, gasoline, houses. but not technology. one of the striking things about the development of especially hardware during the 1980s, was the fact that it was getting so much more powerful so rapidly that there developed a 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
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 s got its best years far ahead of it. eventually i want to be able to carry my mac around with me, walk away with it in my pocket. you really do like that mac. you would trade it for an ibm? are you kidding? as materials sciences progressed, more and more circuitry keeps getting put on smaller and smaller chips, circuit boards, so the closer together elements on a chip are, the faster the motion of signals between them. there was something called moore s law, named for gordon law.