The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.
I am a kid from the '70s, when video games first started coming out, so I definitely have to say I am a video game junkie to this day.
But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.
Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.
I got my first computer at, I don't know, when I was 11 years old? 10?
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.
When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'
We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.
I've been playing video games since the Commodore 64 when I was about 5 years old.
I definitely have a piece of tape over my computer at home.
