they could do did. steve jobs hears about some of this work going on at this lab and wants a look. jobs park was an invention place, xerox bark was a renovation place. it 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 a scary 1984 leader on a big screen. saying that this tiny little company, apple, is going to destroy the reigning power.
it was at a homegrown computer club where they displayed the computer they d been working on, and it caused a sensation. we had absolutely no idea what people were going to do with these things when we started out. as a matter of fact, the two people who it was designed for was woz and myself, because we couldn t afford to buy a computer kit on the market. we got it working and showed it to our friends and everybody wanted one. woz was the technical genius and jobs was the marketing genius, and you needed both of those kinds of mind-sets to 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 sky rocketed from $100,000 to $100 million. with the most popular type writer-sized computer on the market. steven jobs is 26 years old and sees his computer s future as the future of man kind. how many calculators do you have?
xerox park was xerox s think tank. they were working on all these krady, out-there ideas which included the mouse, overlapping windows, fonts and graphics on a 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. jobs park was an invention place, xerox bark was a renovation place. it was different and more communicative than anything he d seen before. owe 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. 198 h4. the ridley scott commercial for the mcintosh. it depicted a scary 1984 leader on a big screen.
saying that this tiny little company, apple, is going to destroy the reigning power. we shall on january 24, apple computer will introduce mcintosh. [ applause ] personal computer war heated up today. apple computer officially unveiled its new mcintosh. i ll let my mcintosh speak for itself. hello, i m mcintosh. the introduction to mac was an event. steve jobs really did think of the mac as a thing that would change the world. apple is betting $100 million and admittedly, its future to make inroads against ibm. apple felt like a rock band. they had the same kind of spirit. they seemed to be going up against the man in ibm. it is aimed at a largely untapped market of managers,
and the button-down business guys ended up coming together when the chip makers realized the things that the hobbyists were doing could lead to a new product called the personal computer. it was at a club where they displayed the computer they d been working on, and it caused a sensation. we had absolutely no idea what people were going to do with these things when we started out. as a matter of fact, the two people who it was designed for was woz and myself, because we couldn t afford to buy a computer kit on the market. we got it working and showed it to our friends and everybody wanted one. woz was the technical genius and jobs was the marketing genius, and you needed both of those kinds of mind-sets to 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 sky rocketed from $100,000 to $100 million. with the most popular type write other-sized computer on the market. st