developed a strong tendency on people who were going to buy a computer, should i buy a computer today? no, if i wait six months i can get twice the computer. the reason we are attracted, 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 exploit more of my potential with a computer. my name is jeff sheldon,
untapped market of managers, professionals and students. may make up about 75% of the white collar workforce. less than 5% now use computers, mostly because of their complexity. mcintosh 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 analyst say it s a good bet that mcintosh 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. you really like that mac. would you trade it for an ibm? are you kiddin ? as material sciences progress, more and more circuitry keeps getting put on
computer that caused me to drop out. if you don t have one, you will be amazed what these little gadgets can do. the idea was that ordinary people might have a use for computers. now, it took a while to figure out what those uses might be. the mane thing was spreadsheets and word processing. the computer was the best typewriter you could ever have. it gave you a new way to write. you could change things around. and check your spelling. it would always look perfect. bottom line numbers. my dad had the large ledger sheets, done them all by hand, and i remember taking a computer to show him the spreadsheet. and i remember taking a computer to show him a spreadsheet. and suddenly, he understood the value of a personal computer. there was a drastic mindset change in the whole country about what a computer was. and happened over a very short period of time. gather around and we ll tell
so life is already seducing you into using these things. it s not at 1984-ish vision. it s going to be very human and very gradual and seduce you into learning how to use it. random access memory is internal memory built inside of this computer. these new computers were rough, ugly, difficult to use inventions when they first came out. it would crash and you would have to figure out what to do. it would not always create the right results, so it really did take a mind-set of someone willing to cut it some slack. don t take big steps. everybody kind of agreed their could be the next big thing after the printing press if we do did 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.
computer screen just to see if they could do did. steve jobs hears about some of this work going on at this lab and wants a look. zbloo zblooer. steve was very visual and he could see right away the graphic interface was different and more communicative than anything he d seen before. he knew it was effective. because it was affecting him. jobs realizes, this is the future of computing. this is a whole different kind of computer to be built. famously, a computer for the rest of us. 1984. the ridley scott commercial for the mcintosh. it depicted of the ibm scarey leader on the big screen saying that this tiny little company, apple, is going to destroy the reigning power.