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The Paperback Computer

The third episode of The Machine That Changed the World covers the development of the personal computer and the modern graphical user interface, which made computing easy to use for everyone. Highlights include interviews with Apple’s Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, drawing with a computer in 1963, great footage from Xerox PARC, and some 1992-era predictions of the future from Apple and others.

English
  • Originally Aired April 20, 1992
  • Runtime 55 minutes
  • Network PBS
  • Created January 18, 2010 by
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  • Modified October 22, 2022 by
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