A former IBM executive, Joe MacMillan plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer and forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. MacMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark, a once great engineer who dreams of creating a revolutionary product while trying to manage his initially unsupportive wife Donna, and Cameron Howe, a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan's...

Covers the keyboard, the cursor, editing text, erasing text, moving text and shortcut keys.

Covers the control panel, the recycle bin, creating folders and shortcuts, moving multiple programs, and installing programs.

Covers "my computer," the organization of the computer, files and folders, saving and deleting, and finding lost files.

"In Computers, former Vice President Al Gore helps Bill trace the evolution of these amazing machines, from early models that took up entire rooms to the personal laptop that fits in your briefcase"--Container.

Dives into the home computer explosion and explores Commodore's key role in shaping the future in which we now live.

Series moderator Jeffrey Mishlove interviews speakers on the effects of personal computers on our thought processes.

"Join Ms. Frizzle and her class as they journey to Mussel Beach, take a dive deep into the ocean, and visit the zoo"--Container.

In 1985, an upstart team of Silicon Valley mavericks launched what seemed to be a miracle: the Amiga computer. It was a machine made for creativity, for games, for art, and for expression. Breaking from the mold set by IBM and Apple, this was something new.

Series moderator Jeffrey Mishlove interviews speakers on the relationship of mind to body or brain; comparison of the mind to computers; and the mind in Buddhism.