the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars. and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology that s been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators, tv, oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now, but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you d be driving home and you d say, i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it had become part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california, americans are tuning out and tuning in. when i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. the walkman was huge. it s the latest fad. tiny st
mouse. it was the first time that 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, nontechnical 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 ahead of it, eventually i want to be able to carry my mac around with me, walk around with it in my pocket. pocket computer? yes. you really like that mac. would you trade it for an ibm? are you kidding? as material sciences progress, 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 moore, one of the engineers who
against the man in ibm. it is aimed at a largely untapped market of managers, professionals, and students. while they make up about 75% of the white collar workforce, 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 that 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 the commands and put it on the desk of everybody. untrained, nontechnical 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 ahead of it, eventually i want to be able to carry my mac around with me, walk around with it in my pocket. pocket computer? yes. you really like that mac. would you trade it for an ibm?
macintosh is designed for simplicity. using a palm-sized unit called a mouse. it was the first time that 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 the commands and put it on the desk of everybody. untrained, nontechnical 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 ahead of it, eventually i want to be able to carry my mac around with me, walk around with it in my pocket. pocket computer? yes. you really like that mac. would you trade it for an ibm? are you kidding? as material sciences progress, 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.
mouse. it was the first time that 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 the commands and put it on the desk of everybody. untrained, nontechnical 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 ahead of it, eventually i want to be able to carry my mac around with me, walk around with it in my pocket. pocket computer? yes. you really like that mac. would you trade it for an ibm? are you kidding? as material sciences progress, 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 moore, one of the engineers who worked at intel.