This tape really is worth listening to for anyone who was not involved with computers in 1983. Jobs clearly sees what is happening in the home computer revolution. He's not alone in that, many of us at that time realized that the computer was going to take over everywhere.
Around that time I worked on a project for a company that made machines to stick labels on product packets. Those machines were electromechanical and worked but were quite inflexible. I was asked to prototype a computer control of one of the machines and wrote the code by hand and demonstrated that not only was computer control cheaper and smaller it was way more flexible. For example, the electromechanical machines were unable to detect when there was a missing sticker on the roll of stickers to be applied to the products. It was trivial with computer control (and an IR detector) to add that functionality.
The machine was a 6502-based box whose interface was a hex keypad and a 6 digit seven segment display. You typed your program in in hex and ran out, but it and enough I/O channels to run the machine.
Around that time I worked on a project for a company that made machines to stick labels on product packets. Those machines were electromechanical and worked but were quite inflexible. I was asked to prototype a computer control of one of the machines and wrote the code by hand and demonstrated that not only was computer control cheaper and smaller it was way more flexible. For example, the electromechanical machines were unable to detect when there was a missing sticker on the roll of stickers to be applied to the products. It was trivial with computer control (and an IR detector) to add that functionality.
The machine was a 6502-based box whose interface was a hex keypad and a 6 digit seven segment display. You typed your program in in hex and ran out, but it and enough I/O channels to run the machine.
Here is is... The KIM-1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1