[one of three] 5/6
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...
[one of three] 5/6 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.
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I think it's interesting that computers started out as big simple calculators, then went through a silly honeymoon period of geek hobbies like playing music and running train sets, and then went BACK to the serious original intentions of the calculator stuff with the spreadsheet.
I wonder what took them so long to find that. Maybe like big kids, they were just too excited with the lights and sounds of a new toy .
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haha, such an epic quote
I wonder what took them so long to find that. Maybe like big kids, they were just too excited with the lights and sounds of a new toy .
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