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¡¡¡¡At first, computers don't seem like a revolution.

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¡¡¡¡Many people believe that only a few computers will ever be sold.

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¡¡¡¡But then they start to reveal their power.

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¡¡¡¡In the '60s computers are used by universities to achieve previously unthinkable calculations.

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¡¡¡¡corporations use them to replace thousands of manual clerks.

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¡¡¡¡Cold War superspending helps fund computer development,

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¡¡¡¡helping companies like IBM to become massive corporations.

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¡¡¡¡1976, a garage in Northern California.

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¡¡¡¡create the world's first practical personal computer.

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¡¡¡¡In a sense, they were building computers

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¡¡¡¡They weren't particularly wealthy.

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¡¡¡¡They just were tinkers.

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¡¡¡¡Soon competitors bring out their own machines.

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¡¡¡¡When IBM launched their PC,

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¡¡¡¡it ups the game.

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¡¡¡¡Computers are changing fast.

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¡¡¡¡Along came the mouse and along came pictures on the screen.

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¡¡¡¡That kind of competition is really where innovation comes from.

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¡¡¡¡The apple II of 1980 has more computing power than was used in the entire Apollo moon landing program.

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¡¡¡¡Personal computers become more powerful,more popular.

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¡¡¡¡There are just 300,000 PCs in 1980.

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¡¡¡¡By 1990, there are over 67 million.

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¡¡¡¡That year, Microsoft sales alone topped $1 billion.

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¡¡¡¡But the true power of computers is yet to be realized.

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¡¡¡¡Only when they start to talk to each other,

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¡¡¡¡will the computing revolution be complete.

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