BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: "CNN 20," and today a look back at revolution in computers.</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, JANUARY 24, 1984) STEVE JOBS, CHAIRMAN & CO-FOUNDER, APPLE COMPUTER: Today, for the first time ever, I'd like to let Macintosh speak for itself.</s>MACINTOSH: Hello, I am Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag.</s>GREG LEFEVRE, CNN SAN FRANCISCO BUREAU CHIEF: This was one of the most dynamic computer presentations I had ever seen. There were a lot of people in the audience who were cheering, standing, screaming when Jobs pulled that Macintosh out of that canvas back because he has really pulled the electronic rabbit out of his electronic hat. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, JANUARY 24, 1984) LEFEVRE (voice-over): The product makes heavy use of a so-called "mouse" moved around a tabletop to make selections.</s>LEFEVRE: All the years in this business, as a journalist, I had been using mechanical typewriters and electric typewriters. And the first time I saw this machine, where you could take the little mouse and swipe it across some copy, and change it or move it. I thought: Wow, this is a terrific writing tool. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, JANUARY 24, 1984) JOHN SCULLY, PRESIDENT, APPLE COMPUTER: The telephone is easy enough to use that everyone wants to use it. It's useful enough because you can communicate to one another, that everyone can do something useful with it and it's really cheap. Those are pretty good definitions of what Macintosh is all about.</s>LEFEVRE: Jobs was betting his entire company on this one computer. But I don't think everybody knew at the time how significant this was going to be. It really was the beginning of the modern computer age.
CNN 20: Macintosh Introduced, January 24, 1984