(1of3) Triumph of the Nerds: Impressing Their Friends. 1996 Documentary

Triumph of the Nerds: Impressing Their Friends. (Documentary) (Stereo) (1996)

Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996) is a documentary film written and hosted by Robert X. Cringely and produced for British television by Oregon Public Broadcasting. The title refers to the 1984 film, Revenge of the Nerds, and the documentary itself is based on Cringely's book Accidental Empires. The three-part film first premiered on PBS in June 1996.

The documentary chronicles the rise of the personal computer/home computer beginning in the 1970s with the Altair 8800, Apple I and Apple II and VisiCalc. It continues through the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh revolution through the 1980s and the mid 1990s, ending at the beginning of the Dot-com boom with the release of Windows 95.
It includes interviews with many influential figures in the PC industry, including Apple's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, and Oracle's Larry Ellison.

Episode 1of3:
Tim Paterson's development of 86-DOS largely from duplicating Gary Kildall's CP/M operating system. Microsoft purchased all rights to 86-DOS from Paterson's employer SCP for US$50,000 shortly before the release of the IBM PC. Microsoft's resulting MS-DOS was an operating system that could run on any 8086-family computer.

More information at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_...

Watch Part (2of3)
Riding The Bear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbRmaI...

Watch Part (3of3)
Great Artists Steal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Bg46...

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[Oscar Renzo Guiulfo]

Where is 10yr old Edwin now?

[Metal404Head]

Back when everything wasn't tainted by that fucking white apple.

[OuterSpaceCyborg]

That's some good old fashion sexism right there.

[Jessy Pelletier-Lemire]

It still does (well, not as he did by the past), but Windows being more popular, microsoft doesn't even have to make drivers (constructers do those by themselves) as in linux it's the community's role to code them... (damn constructors !)

Posted from my Ubuntu Laptop :-P

[vh90278]

This is bullsht, they bought out and stole basic for a penny

[provito]

Where is Commodore?

[UnixNoobify]

And when linux still kicked ass :O

[7r4iL3r]

play world of warcraft

[flamebugz9998]

Where is Napoleon?

[Emilio Lo Prete]

Does anybody know the name of the folk song on 29:00?

[kyral210]

He is 26 and living in America :D

[Chirag Vora]

AFAI understand from Walter Issacson's book, Steve was not a programmer. So at 12:17 it is his "Reality Distortion Field".