(1of3) Triumph of the Nerds: Impressing Their Friends. 1996 480P Documentary

(480P) (Stereo) Triumph of the Nerds: Impressing Their Friends. (Documentary) (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_of_the_Nerds

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

Watch Part (3of3)
Great Artists Steal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Bg461mnN8

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[brabon1]

i think being rich, did matter to jobs

it didnt matter to woz...who basically chucked it all when it stopped being fun

[TheJediCharles]

This is the best program about the history of the PC ever. It should be mandatory viewing in every school.

[superearthbender]

@nnnnnn95 I guess you're right, everyone has their part. Jobs' just was the one of stealing credit.

"I invented this."

[nnnnnn95]

@superearthbender Whats that have to do with money? BTW, telling someone else to make it better is not so easy. No one else did it. Hmmmmmmmm?

[superearthbender]

@nnnnnn95 Yeah, because Steve Jobs was an engineer.

"Make it... BETTER."

"Yes sir."

[mrbrockpeters]

I wish I was a programmer in those days. I can't stand today's brogrammers they totally annoy me and are marginally better with women.

[mrbrockpeters]

The dancers belong to Paul Allen?

PIMP ALL THE HOS!!!

[nnnnnn95]

@brabon1

You are wrong. Read about Jobs and you will understand that material things meant little to him. Making great products did.

[HHGFHJGFHJGFJTYFJDGY]

Being rich mattered to Jobs, only because he knew it was the only way he could do what he dreamed of. Woz was a technical nerd, a technical genius who only wanted to mess around with computers or play pranks on people.

[computercube123]

@macomputersuck 1 person is NOT a nerd