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
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 the computer has become a national mania. we are told miss the electronic boat and you re sunk. in the future everything is probably going to be computerized so you have to know how to use computers. my son just took a computer class in school. he s only 8 years old. i figure i d just as soon be as smart as he is. for all you hear about friendly, they aren t really especially for playing pacman. a small snag in computer marketing has been what is called technophobia. fear of these bloodless little wizards.
an advanced fiber-network infrustructure. new, more reliable equipment for your home. and a new culture built around customer service. it all adds up to our most reliable network ever. one that keeps you connected to what matters most. in the early part of the 80s, the general image of the computer was always this giant machine with little things all over it. the mindset was the computer as the brain and it was a threatening concept.
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 take a mindset of someone willing to cut it some slack. take little steps. don t take big steps. everybody kind of agreed that this could be the next great thing after the printing press if we do it right. it s not just having a machine. the world needed to be made better. those are the things that actually can lift a society into a new way of thinking. industry experts say we re no longer on the verge of the personal computer revolution. we re right in the midst of it, thank you. and it s gathering steam with more and more people jumping
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. immediately, everyone wanted one. woz was the technical genius and jobs was the marketing genius. you needed both of those kinds of mindsets to actually make this new technology work and create this company out of thin air called apple. since the apple computer company was founded five years ago, its sales have skyrocketed from about $100,000 to more than $100 million with the most popular typewriter sized computer on the market today. steven jobs is now 26 years old and he sees his computer s future as the future of mankind. how many calculators do you own? two, maybe. right. you use the automatic bank telling machines? sure. so life is