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Word: computerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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These versatile machines are "personal computers" made by Apple Computer of Cupertino, Calif. In just four years, Apple has captured about 20% of the growing market for these relatively cheap (about $1,000) machines, which are designed primarily for small business and professional users. Sales in this new and rapidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shiny Apple | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

The market was considerably broadened by the Apple II model, introduced in 1977 as the first programmable personal computer that could be bought fully assembled rather than in kit form. This year 100,000 Apple Us will be sold, vs 25,000 in 1978. Prices: from $1,195 for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shiny Apple | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

The basic Apple II consists of a typewriter keyboard about the size of an attache case; it plugs into any TV set and flashes information on the screen. It can be programmed by anyone familiar with BASIC, the simplest computer language, to do income taxes, balance a checkbook, record recipes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shiny Apple | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Apple is the fruit of Jobs and another college dropout, Stephen Wozniak, 26, both of whom had worked for West Coast electronics firms. In 1976 they sold a Volkswagen Micro Bus and a calculator to scrape together $1,300 to build a small computer in Jobs' garage. It took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shiny Apple | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

There is also some potential for suspense in a computer whiz, played by Paul Mazursky, who is better known as a director (An Unmarried Woman). The genius' wife is deserting him, he is a hypochondriac and chicken to boot. One imagines he might crack under the add ed strain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mild Tale | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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