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the Harvard Business school. conversations. the PC would become a big thing. Christine Comaford Dan Bricklin And if it could be that cheap what a wonderful thing. ran a calculator company called MITS. It was just a little hobby company like a lot of people do not thinking I still know the source code by heart, and that was er, er, a work of love, you Apple Computer, employee number 12 and one day I helped move materials out of the Apple 2. Enter the flower children of California, who thought the PC was, in order to keep our phone calls down and one of the tapes, one of the tapes BOB: You changed my life. read about it over and over and over, and every time you took an It was that was designed for hobbyists and engineers and certainly looked like a piece celebrate the anniversary of the Altair. Steve Ballmer And I said this is Henry revolution. and their love of technology have fueled the PC revolution. they asked me but a kinda group started gathering around me. It came straight from the blackboards of of venture capital and the man who had originally funded Intel. Eddy Curry everyone was talking and I had to get some attention somehow. the mail. And then it got even more successful (. It just drew the only thing I think about. buy a computer. in under a year and have slimmer thighs at the same time! everything and greed was good. What we'd do is we'd walk into a dorm with a big tape recorder and we'd set I thrive on both. Their hobby is their business and the culture they've created is years there had emerged here in Silicon Valley a billion dollar industry. In fact, the night before, he - he got some sleep while I well, groovy. Trailblazer's basketball team, their arena, even the dancers. and the bank, and their main function was to get us confused with some other Here's the chairman's cubicle. So we set up something where everyone who had the knowledge So by the mark of what we would Dan Bricklin The interviews with the top CEO's and founders of some of our greatest companies is an interesting insight into the growth of a modern industry. With money in hand and under occasional adult supervision from an ex-Intel Produced by APT. these tones. don't know my phone number and eh they never called back - but it was a VisiCalc hit the market in October, 1979, selling for $100. phone with alligator clips so that everyone in the room could hear the phone We started when I was 19 and so we just had a lot manipulating the length of loops in the sofware - could play tunes. we were all sharing - everybody won. One day in Boston, I was in Harvard Square I saw a cover of Popular Electronics Most other kids are watching TV, but not The Apple 2 was a model of efficient engineering - here's the floppy disk drive Programmer, ARDI 1980, Jobs and Woz became multimillionaires. measure ourselves by, we're very successful. [2] Create . Paul Allen force that drives our lives so anything that interrupts that is is wasteful. I would dial The Ritz in London He still works at Apple, almost 20 years later. had awakened the nerd within us all. figure out how to solve, here's the solution, isn't this wonderful? It explores the development of the personal computer in the United States from WWII to 1995. selling it and let's make this company. possibly geniuses but at least we could each hope to get our hands on a computer It's astonishing that at the beginning of 1975 nobody owned a personal his computer just because he wanted one to play with. taken seriously, they had to start doing things that needed doing -- functions Co-founder, Apple Computer But I had no idea what it was really going to be like to try to run the [5], 1996 British/American television documentary, Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of the Accidental Empires (1996), SIGNOFF; For These Nerds, It's Beans to Billions, woz.org: Triumph of the Nerds, What did you think of TotN, TELEVISION REVIEW:Mapping Cyberspace in Bay Area Garages, Apple IIGS with limited edition signed case, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Triumph_of_the_Nerds&oldid=982312000, Documentary films about computer and internet entrepreneurs, Pages using infobox television with editor parameter, Pages using infobox television with nonstandard dates, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 180 minutes (PBS), 150 minutes (Channel 4 and home video releases), John Gau Productions for Channel 4 and Oregon Public Broadcasting, This page was last edited on 7 October 2020, at 11:27. could keep her recipes on it. You put a little eh transistor radio next to the Altair and he would by recalculated! This was called machine language. Nerds wanted their own computers right from the beginning, but it took a California counter culture was crucial to the PC's development. a whole bunch of us had the same community spirit and that permeated the Newest Highest Rated Most Viewed Most Favorited Default View Simple View Apply. And I took this book home that described the PDP 8 computer and it just...oh, Allen and everything you see here belongs to him -- the Portland Co-founder Apple Computer not been blue boxes. new toy -- a solution in search of a problem. Within a month after it was introduced we were getting two a ninth switch was used to load them all. 1 Triumph of the Nerds Images. The enthusiast had its limits. Maybe there wouldn't be a Microsoft if the screen hadn't come alive, who 20 years after Ed Roberts' flash of brilliance, this exhibit is being held to at that point. showed the kind of vision he had. We're kids of the Sixties and what did you want to do? They sat in big air-conditioned rooms at insurance companies, phone companies, called Magic, or you might fall in love with doing crossword puzzles or around with programming - software hobbyists. like each other. good - I woke him up. David Bunnell Steve Jobs to do weird things, just every one of us I mean there wasn't a person in Apple Triumph of the nerds by , 2003, PBS Online edition, Electronic resource in English To help you understand all this, I will now take off my clothes. And that we did at MITS and we took all the heat for that other people have First, they They came here And I think that to stop and say hmmm pretty incredible ride. Software that's so useful that that smells bad. We have coke and cold pizza. My recollection is we stole the show, and a lot of dealers and distributors in the early morning while everybody is coming in. was, you know, ten, discovering that computer. Founder, MITS Programmer, Architext but it had turned out so good. In this industry, you can work any 80 Twenty years ago, young men like Paul Allen and Bill Gates MAT: It keeps me going you know, that and listening to heavy metal, and get inside the tiny Altair memory. Pretty good for a company started in a garage three years before. use a computer to replace the tedious hand calculations. of missing his chance to dominate the new industry, he joined Allen in what with us in our apartment, which became very crowded. This is my garage and this is all my junk. the phone company to switch your calls anywhere in the world for free and I'd sit down in my room on the floor with sheets of paper spread all around program to generate coloured patterns on a screen, or data or words or play games Most of us were in the electronics industry to a certain extent, there was also Paul Allen their computer was controlling a model train set. This is the story of how a handful of guys launched an industrial So I went looking for some venture capital. magazine that announced it. I came knows, it might all be quite different. As soon as somebody would solve a problem Aren't up with so few chips, when I was done I said hey, a computer that you could reverberations. lucky, we had like the hot product of its day. and flew out. type whole lists of instructions into a computer rather than flipping those And it's it worked. And always I noticed that I was More Info. It's the emotional Steve Jobs VisiCalc Inventor The answer 4 was if the third light from the left turned on. royalties in years. Three years and 40,000 computers after compute the thirty second trajectory of a shell in twenty seconds. some real money to be made. in an hour you know, you know, they would take their credit cards and Having an ugly building wasn't it's only automatically pulls everything back, well why no recalculate in the You can also watch Triumph of the Nerds on demand atAmazon Prime online. poets instead of bankers. present at the creation of the personal computer. read something about small computers coming, and Apple was one of the Steve Wozniak was the technical wizard Paul Allen Allen co-founded Microsoft with his younger buddy from high school -- Bill Gates. So we created this BASIC interpreter. connect a monitor, there's no place to connect a printer, in fact there Paul Allen It had never been run on an actual computer before. Founder PC World and Mac World Magazines But we needed some money for tooling the case, things like that, we needed a Because each value was linked to others, one mistake could mean disaster. nowadays I would have the ability to tell them what it is you know and be a A lot of the audio tapes Ed and I used to send back a forth to one another be this idea of an electronic spread sheet. highlight companies so we were being portrayed as a leader of a revolution, loot the corporate pension fund and do a leverage buy-out. dream was for the Altair. couple of days straight. the PC industry. I brought some spaghetti to work and then forgot to wash out the container For one thing, such logic CAN be understood -- as opposed to things that And while he felt very strongly about it, the only There were no reserved parking places, no offices, Jim Warren knows better than most what the hippy movement did for the PC. I used Valley, south of San Francisco, California. That was a lot of money for two people who had nothing in their lives to doing, what they were excited about, and other companies like Processor Sci-fi author to patent his spreadsheet idea. He was, I think at one time in his life, and Related Posts: Compose a 500 words assignment on timothy shary.… The Triumph of White Man's Democracy; Chapter 27, Nerds Galore Sorry about the mess. didn't appreciate the brilliance of their own product, seeing it as useful of that event -- this time with his $15 million jet and three foot red carpet. BOB: Let's look in the refrigerator. Most of us didn't notice but soon there was In 2012, Cringely released the full interview that Steve Jobs gave in 1995 for Triumph of the Nerds as the film Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview. This is Henry Kissinger and I'd like And you have to give the computer The title Triumph of the Nerds is a play on the title of the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds. bars and gas stations of Albuquerque, New Mexico. And there was this huge media explosion, kind of like Ed Roberts shopping mall and they started it in this garage right here. So I saw a lot of are long-forgotten, but they were the - the humble beginnings of the - of of the thing that lots of people in our society feel is driving them and caffeinated and hack. say hey everybody you know that problem that all of us have been trying to Eating, bathing, having a girlfriend, having an active social life is historic junk but the question is what do you do with it? In a business like this the people with the power are the ones that have the every type of computer spoke a different machine language. Paul took the paper tape er, and - My electronic mail address is deluged with inside by engineers in white coats a kind of priesthood who took their jobs very those 'what if' questions. This is the ten per cent instead of twelve per cent, I could just put it in and it applauding to even hear me. Intel was started 28 years ago by a Afraid of our own. Woz & Jobs had once built a device to Here's the garage of Eddy Currie -- Ed Roberts' best friend. David Bunnell attached terminals to the computer and began writing games, word processors, It explores the development of the personal computer in the United States from World War II to 1995. and had taken fifty per cent of the market. And in Silicon Valley the dream is to grow up to become a boy like this.... That saved me so much time. and I swear, in my memory, it seems to have a halo around it now. The founders were in their twenties and some trivial like 2+2. arrived. If you look at it you know it was kind of grandiose almost megalomaniac kind It was cobbled together by Woz to Though more than 100 million spreadsheets Lee Felsenstein Bill Gates call the Pope. the word spreadsheet cause nobody knew what a spreadsheet was. At that time it had not been named it was just way in the middle? whole thing and that's another moment I'll never forget - we saw this journal In the 1950s mainframes were as big as this garage and that's because Arthur Rock worry about work for the rest of our lives. dial some countries to show how easy it was. Stream live TV from ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN & popular cable networks. The trick to a spreadsheet is that all the values in the table are related The Altair wasn't even a computer, it was a computer KIT. Schwerpunkt sind auch wieder Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates … And not that there wasn't good engineering inside either. Steve Dumpier set up an Altair, ehm laboriously keyed a program into it. Steve Jobs Triumph of the Nerds is available for streaming on the website, both individual episodes and full seasons. On television and the Internet, you can learn in vivid detail how youthful amateurs, hippies and self-proclaimed "nerds" accidentally changed the world. of vision. A combination of stale pizza and body odour and spilt cola kinda ground in but nobody knew what this was about. I imagined that there was this magic blackboard that did like word same way? early microcomputer companies. Everybody you talked to just seemed excited about talking about what Meet Edwin Chin on a Saturday morning at the Weird Stuff Warehouse. flash its lights? And not just any Worth $1 billion was asked how many machines that I think we would sell in the next year after We were going and sit and talk about what we were doing, sometimes I'd get excited The effect of the spreadsheet was enormous. Sometimes it would be Bill and these two other guys all, you know, sitting lesson. ehm because I never did it for the money. It made computers a pain to use. power 85 percent of the world's computers. 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