Triumph of the Nerds [three of three] 5/6

[three 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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• IBM
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[TechForThought]

funny....balmer said, "just you watch windows 98"

THIS AIRED IN 1996 LOL

[shodanbot]

As Apple is trying to catch up with MS windows in gaming. Sorry, but as long as windows supports the latest games and a large range of hardware combinations and software, it will still be my entertainment OS of choice. :P

[HaraldSangvik]

LOL @ Steve jobs nagging about microsoft having no taste and originality!

[Corganfuzz]

for the MOST part....lol

[MrTEHCOMEDIAN]

@Yobachi2007 amen

[gschjetne]

I wonder what the implications for NeXT, Sun, SGI, etc. would have been if Apple had won the 1994 suit.

[snooters]

0:09 haters gonna hate.



[furQ]

@Yobachi2007 if you think that apple have been in any way unsuccessful in marketing their products at average users then i really don't know what to tell you.

[furQ]

@Yobachi2007 if you think that apple have been in any way unsuccessful in marketing their products at average users then i really don't know what to tell you.

[furQ]

@shodanbot nah, apple is stealing the handheld console market. i'd be surprised if, ten years from now, nintendo still make hardware.

[furQ]

@shodanbot nah, apple is stealing the handheld console market. i'd be surprised if, ten years from now, nintendo still make hardware.

[danielearwicker]

Amazing to see GUIs where the computer is so slow that you can see them repainting the screen.