Triumph of the Nerds [three of three] 3/6

[three of three] 3/6
This film chronicles the rise of the personal computer/home computer beginning in the 1970s with the Altair 8800, Apple II and VisiCalc. It continues through the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh revolution through the 1980s and the mid 1990s at the beginning of the Dot-com boom. It includes interviews with Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates.

This three-part film first premiered on PBS in June 1996.

PS!
Here's a playlist for the whole thing:
http://tinyurl.com/37xnc2
Takes you from A to Z of the film with ease.

• Category

  Science & Technology

[lordtapdoles]

Can I just say how good these videos are please? I've watched it all and I'm really, really grateful to you for this.

[kratoff]

nomatter what peoplemight think of these guys they litterrally changed the world and the way peole are living in. And for that they deserve all our ratitude and respect. Hope our generarion is aking these guys as role models and follow the tracks they lefT

[slayersdeath]

your a fucking dipshit 

[kissben]

Part 3:

Bill Atkinson

And maybe in the process of that dialogue Steve will suggest something that caused his engineers to go back and make it better yet and that's actually what a happened a lot of times Steve really did make the product better without even knowing exactly how the engineer was doing it.

[kissben]

Part 2:

Bill Atkinson

I mean, he would sometimes tell people this is shit and you had to understand what that meant in Jobs language, you see.

BOB: What did it mean?

BILL: As an engineer, if you understood his language you would understand that that was a request to teach me about this.

Steve Jobs

No that's not usually what I meant. I you know when you get really good people they know they're really good and you don't have to baby peoples egos so much.

[kissben]

This video is edited. Here is the snippet of missing dialogue, per the PBS website. This goes after Hertzfeld talks about reducing the Mac startup time and before talking about the wirewrap board. Part 1:

Larry Tesler

And the little things he did would create incredible pressure unlike I'd ever experienced before just tearing you to the bone ripping you apart and making you feel worthless.

[MrTEHCOMEDIAN]

FUCK steve jobs

megalomaniac asshole that he was.

fuck his memory

[Heather Murphy]

RIP STEVE!!!!!

[madcapoperator]

'Only 2 milestone products in our industry'? Missing out the Commodore 64, the biggest selling computer model of all time? Hmm, I'd consider that a milestone too and the fact it brought computers home to EVERYBODY due to its insanely small cost.

[MisterEvasion]

Bill Gates helped pioneer the Mac? I never knew that. How weird. It just goes to show you how much misinformation you get from those platform religious nuts. Gates and Jobs seem to be co-opetitors.