the average family home, cory practices her violin, christian plays with his cars and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went in with 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 would be driving home and you would say i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it becomes 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 stereo casset
companies, radio shack, apple and commodore, grabbing three-quarters of the market. this personal computer costs about $1400 and fits nicely on a desk corner. duplicating its performance just five years ago would have cost $75,000 and involve a unit the size of a large refrigerator. when the average american thought computer they thought ibm. it made mainframe computers that ran pretty much everything. ibm was one of the most powerful corporations in america and in technology, it was the most powerful company that had ever existed in technology. because of this activity in personal computers, it started to make ibm look like it was somewhere behind the eight ball. they look at the apple ii and say we can make one of those. we build the computers that put america on the moon. we will get in that business, squash these guys, no problem. ibm, international business machines, has entered the small computer market for the first time. the idea of the small computer has become s
to build personal computers, companies like atari, commodore, apple, began to see them as a home market and it was starting to seep into the public consciousness. personal computers have become the business of at least 25 manufacturers with three companies, radio shack, apple and commodore, grabbing three-quarters of the market. this personal computer costs about $1400 and fits nicely on a desk corner. duplicating its performance just five years ago would have cost $75,000 and involved a unit the size of a large refrigerator. when the average american thought computer they thought ibm. it made these mainframe computers that ran pretty much everything. ibm was one of the most powerful corporations in america and in technology it was the most powerful company that had ever existed in technology. because of this activity in personal computers, it started to make ibm look like it was somewhere behind the eight ball. they look at the apple ii and say we can make one of those. we
this personal computer costs about $1400 and fits nicely on a desk corner. duplicating its performance just five years ago would have cost $75,000 and involve a unit the size of a large refrigerator. when the average american thought computer they thought ibm. it made mainframe computers that ran pretty much everything. ibm was one of the most powerful corporations in america and in technology, it was the most powerful company that had ever existed in technology. because of this activity in personal computers, it started to make ibm look like it was somewhere behind the eight ball. they look at the apple ii and say we can make one of those. we build the computers that put america on the moon. we will get in that business, squash these guys, no problem. ibm, international business machines, has entered the small computer market for the first time. the idea of the small computer has become so big that the giant of computer companies, ibm, is busy marketing its new
the business of at least 25 companies, with radio shack, apple and commodore grabbing three quarters of the market. this personal computer costs about $1400 and fits nicely on a desk corner. duplicating its performance five years ago would have cost $75,000 and required a unit the size of a large refrigerator. when the average american bought a computer, they thought of ibm. it made these mainframe computers that ran pretty much everything. ibm was one of the most powerful corporations in america. and in technology, it was the most powerful company that had ever existed in technology. because of this activity in personal computers it started to make ibm look like they were behind the eight ball. they look at the apple ii and say, huh, we could build one of those. we built the computers that put america on the moon. ibm has entered the small computer market for the first time. the idea of the small