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Is it important? -Uh, if you want to hook up disc drives
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General Magic

Is it important?-Uh, if you want to hook updisc drives and things of that nature,...

Is it important?
-Uh, if you want to hook up
disc drives and things of that nature, yeah.
It's really important

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- Is it important? -Uh, if you want to hook up disc drives
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and things of that nature, yeah. It's really important.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
31
Timestamp in Movie
00:24:48
Uploaded
Jun 18, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Spellbound Productions II

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The ideas that dominate the tech industry and our day to day lives were born at a secretive Silicon Valley start-up named 'General Magic', which spun out of Apple in 1990 to create the first handheld personal communicator (or "smartp
I wanted to make it work really seamlessly and fast. - General Magic 00:05
I wanted to make it work really seamlessly and fast.
This is basically our first test of our-- our-- basically a first demo - General Magic 00:09
This is basically our first test of our-- our-- basically a ...
And this was a technology to string peripherals together. - General Magic 00:06
And this was a technology to string peripherals together.
Today we call it USB, and so we were creating USB before the world knew about it. - General Magic 00:06
Today we call it USB, and so we were creating USB before the...
We decided to make everything. I mean, we were making it all. - General Magic 00:05
We decided to make everything. I mean, we were making it all...
See right now the whole class viewable texture is one formatter for everything. - General Magic 00:05
See right now the whole class viewable texture is one format...
That meant we were custom building every piece, it's kind of like hand assembling a car - General Magic 00:11
That meant we were custom building every piece, it's ki...
In many projects, you might build one or two innovative break-out things, - General Magic 00:16
In many projects, you might build one or two innovative brea...
We couldn't find a touch screen to solve this problem, in fact, - General Magic 00:07
We couldn't find a touch screen to solve this problem, ...
This Wendell, who works for Wendell Sander, he came up with this idea - General Magic 00:10
This Wendell, who works for Wendell Sander, he came up with ...
So as you touch it in any particular place, - General Magic 00:09
So as you touch it in any particular place,
- How small will it finally be, do you think? -Some day? - General Magic 00:05
- How small will it finally be, do you think? -Some day?
Right now, in the beginning, we are starting with a screen size that's probably about that big. - General Magic 00:05
Right now, in the beginning, we are starting with a screen s...
Technically it was really, really hard to build something the size of those models. - General Magic 00:06
Technically it was really, really hard to build something th...
Uh, the technology just wasn't there yet, but, hey, that was ok, - General Magic 00:13
Uh, the technology just wasn't there yet, but, hey, tha...
The touchscreen is a little funky. - General Magic 00:04
The touchscreen is a little funky.
What was this thing gonna look like? You know, we knew what size screen - General Magic 00:07
What was this thing gonna look like? You know, we knew what ...
The thing about computer programming - General Magic 00:05
The thing about computer programming
There is a creative process here that is much like - General Magic 00:06
There is a creative process here that is much like
This is very creative, which is a surprise to a lot of people. - General Magic 00:04
This is very creative, which is a surprise to a lot of peopl...