(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$50000 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: en.wikipedia.org Watch Part (2of3) Riding The Bear www.youtube.com Watch Part (3of3) Great Artists Steal www.youtube.com