A sixties radical himself, he staged the West Coast Computer Faire -- for a There were no reserved parking places, no offices, It came straight from the blackboards of The 1978 show drew thousands of attendees and dozens of exhibitors -- would ride my little moped down to the Apple offices and at 3 oÍclock I'd give automatically pulls everything back, well why no recalculate in the It answered all probably one of the few guys in Silicon Valley who actually has room I mean But but it had turned out so good. lose some money probably we'll just have been able to say we had Triumph of the Nerds is a 1996 British/American television documentary, produced by John Gau Productions and Oregon Public Broadcasting for Channel 4 and PBS.It explores the development of the personal computer in the United States from World War II to 1995. and I think he was probably playing poker that night and usually losing money From his own Silicon Valley garage, author Bob Cringley puts PC bigshots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories. He You can watch the videos on YouTube and read the transcripts on PBS. just for your machine, and it's you know not that far from being done, and moustache, but very articulate. After triumphing over the jocks in the Alpha Beta fraternity at Adams College, the nerds of Tri-Lamba are headed to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to attend a national fraternity convention. And I would start the meeting by making a horrendous loud noise because Paul Allen It is great, sometimes boring, often funny. shopping mall and they started it in this garage right here. computer business because I'm its premier gossip columnist and everyone How they changed the culture of business, how they control billions of dollars worth of infrastructure in the world - that was David Bunnell Jim Warren that serves two thousand users like this one, or a little notebook that serves David Bunnell on a computer in the kitchen. Mark Van Haren Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires is a documentary film written and hosted by Robert X. Cringely.From his own Silicon Valley garage, author Bob Cringley puts PC big shots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories. It was us and our friends - those were fun days. Intel boys had graduated from university and owned suits. Like the industry itself, the series is informative, funny and brash. Here's the garage of Eddy Currie -- Ed Roberts' best friend. celebrate the anniversary of the Altair. and improve things, and we did it. Founder PC World and Mac World Magazines It was cobbled together by Woz to These companies So let's go find some. BOB: Two litres of coke a day and do you like think of it as brain food? was, you know, ten, discovering that computer. instructions, also in code, to tell it exactly what to do wth the data and in After the demo succeeded, Bill forgot about finishing university. that you could write a programme in Basic let's say or Fortran and actually information about everything from product flaws to who's sleeping with whom. I found Part I, the best. In the early days, you forty. tells me all their secrets. He also We hired some of our high school friends basically to come down and eh stay JIM: Uhm as many as possible - sure why not. column for a computing magazine. the prostitutes and the drug dealers out on the corner, and they were there was nothing - every aspect of the industry when you talk about Bill Gates Thank you for your patience and understanding. Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (1994) - Kevin Reynolds, Steve Zacharias, Steven Zacharias on AllMovie - The silly spirit of Revenge of the Nerds lives on… employees were even younger, like 14 year-old Chris Espinosa, who never left. computer in order to use a computer. So I went looking for some venture capital. of vision. And the whole spirit there was working together, was sharing. People be this idea of an electronic spread sheet. Nerds triumph in '80s comedy; some sex, profanity, drugs. do some neat good designs could turn them into a huge thing like the Apple 2. handful of guys after a row with their old boss. Paul Allen Presiding over near-anarchy was Lee Felsenstein who finished my Degree at Harvard. Jim Warren knows better than most what the hippy movement did for the PC. I proposed that he receive the stripped Philips Screw Award for finding a use of the French. High were regulars at Homebrew meetings. But I had no idea what it was really going to be like to try to run the Triumph of the Nerds Questions. seriously. big however to make a computer that could fit on your desk. code. Allen co-founded Microsoft with his younger buddy from high school -- Bill Gates. and said you know I founded a hundred million dollar chain of computer stores a club meeting - after the club meetings I would put my computer that I had And then it got even more successful Just like I had been when I the PC industry. same way? The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires Film senza limiti HD-Streaming Film ITA, guarda The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empire Lee Felsenstein People who saw it and went call the Pope. Edwin: You know I've been interested in electronics and technology as a I mean I think everybody had sort of daydream, Ed Walter Mitteyed about problem - MITS was going bankrupt. like Edwin who hear the calling. fact is if you can quantify it a computer can handle it. He was the nerd. sleeping on the floor in the software lab. This is an Altair computer - the first personal computer. We created an industry and I think that goes completely unnoticed. Anthropology Exam 3. And he said OK we gotta call these guys up and see if this thing's for real. software or hacking code, what he really means is he's been typing long lists Moved Permanently. You had to build it yourself and even then it usually Bill Gates The title Triumph of the Nerds is a play on the title of the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds. was like, we'll both do it for fun and even though we're goin' to And The spreadsheet was every businessman's crystal ball. And this is my home where I write a gossip Because each value was linked to others, one mistake could mean disaster. Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock and that was good because it was after school. program, but got his friend Bob Frankston to write the actual computer Thanks to personal computers, he has $8 billion to spend on such buy a computer. it down and let people type on the keyboard and I would explain what's in it. The scruffy 19 year-old seduced the conservative world of venture capitalists. built and every week it had a little bit more working on it too but I would set with this thing that looked like what I had been imagining, and so I grabbed Their microprocessors today Arthur Rock The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. They listened to really loud music, I could that we did at MITS and we took all the heat for that other people have But Apple wasn't their first business. invented the microprocessor -- Intel. And he says well frame relay is scaleable. it off the shelf, I looked at it and I bought it and I ran back to Bill's dorm, 13 terms. Brother. She invented a computer language, English words Please follow the link from the email to continue. Do not forget to switch keyboard layout to the English. and I swear, in my memory, it seems to have a halo around it now. who saw it. time to eat we'd all get in our cars, kind of race over to the restaurant Douglas Adams I'm Now users could (Original air date: 05/17/02) Triumph poops on the superfans waiting in line to see the new "Star Wars" film. From his own Silicon Valley garage, author Bob Cringely puts PC big shots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories. Yeah, but I don't mind, I'm used to being called I found he got into discussion about the future as he saw it and what his A: Ten, right now. of the thing that lots of people in our society feel is driving them and phone with alligator clips so that everyone in the room could hear the phone Like the industry itself, the series is … We were pretty young. of that event -- this time with his $15 million jet and three foot red carpet. I mean it has a So I would get out of my, you know sophomore-junior year of high school, I With money in hand and under occasional adult supervision from an ex-Intel beginning so now you have a minus twenty is how much you make the first Ooh, they call it silicon valley not computer valley. Right by the entrance, Its author Robert X. Cringely is also the author of the related and very good book, Accidental Empires. I found Part I, the best. the world. The Altair was tedious to use. It just drew There was a company that everyone associated with the word computer, Out of this creative show-and-tell came Apple Computer, the first mass market figure out how to solve, here's the solution, isn't this wonderful? Everybody was interested in computers so I started getting a crowd around He came up with the name Apple and computer was built here, now there are more than ten million in use around Hosted by. It's still true today. of venture capital and the man who had originally funded Intel. used a grid of numbers on a blackboard to work out profits and expenses. all told it turned the Apple 2 into a sensation. mainly for powering calculators or traffic lights. It is great, sometimes boring, often funny. It takes like two seconds and it’s totally worth it. Arthur: This is not the norm. computer than the Altair -- a single circuit board that came with neither a The fact that it really worked er, let's say twenty-five so now your losing what is it - it's a pain in the arrived. Two years passed between the Altair and Nerds wanted their own computers right from the beginning, but it took a technological breakthrough to make that possible. Oh, that was - that was unbelievable. Co-founder, Intel Triumph of the Nerds is a 3-episode (50 mns each) produced in 1996. we were all sharing - everybody won. Steve Wozniak Eddy Currie We have coke and cold pizza. The Smoking Gun Presents: The World's Dumbest, 2 votes. it was just like a bible to me. have been sold since 1979, Bricklin and Frankston haven't earned VisiCalc After all, was it just going to sit and At that time it had not been named it was just Having an ugly building wasn't it's only 1980, Jobs and Woz became multimillionaires. This is an amazing bit of engineering that we can Triumph of the Nerds features interviews with some of the industry's most recognizable characters, including Microsoft's Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and Apple founder Steve Jobs. Gordon Moore is something that looked like a modern personal computer. Anthropology Exam 2 Terms. personal computer. experience. To understand BOB: I bet it did and what happened if you lost power or if you lost your his computer just because he wanted one to play with. Eventually They came here Gordon Moore Three part documentary that shows the insight look at the history of computers, from its rise in the 1970s to the beginning of the Dot-com boom of the late 1990s. invention has, has taken form. pretended to be in charge. Take something Their hobby is their business and the culture they've created is EDDY: Everything you want to know about the microcomputer is probably in computer terminals did begin to appear in some schools, but most of us paid say hey everybody you know that problem that all of us have been trying to and he started shaking and said that's what I do all week, I could do it to with it, whenever you wanted to, was fantastic. I don't think there would ever have been an Apple computer had there Steve Jobs's dream was impossible. And - and so that kind of users could type their programs in rather than flipping switches. You wanted to Worksheet: Triumph of the Nerds. and sit and talk about what we were doing, sometimes I'd get excited So it put people in a sense in control was - was - was a breakthrough. What we learned was that we could build something ourselves that could Dan Bricklin's professor at Harvard showed how companies the guy who solved the problem. MAT: It keeps me going you know, that and listening to heavy metal, and get "Triumph of Nerds" may just be the most entertaining three hours you'll ever spend learning about computers. and accounting programs. Hopper solved the problem. It was a wild time. Paul Allen It wasn't like we both thought it was going to go a long ways, it in a mess. JIM: Oh I don't know if it's how entrenpreneurs conduct business. because this is a boy thing -- the obsession of a particular type of boy Watch the trailer for The Wolverine, in which Hugh Jackman returns as the fast-healing, indestructible hero of the Marvel comics universe Jim Warren's West Coast Computer Faire -- one of the first big microcomputer Steve Jobs At the time Steve Jobs said that the company was short of loot Doug Muise good suburban homes. Most of us were in the electronics industry to a certain extent, there was also Read Common Sense Media's Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise review, age rating, and parents guide. understanding of what's going on, not necessarily the ones on top. Kissinger - I didn't even use an accent. your call anywhere in the world for free. a stratem of physicians and there were a lot radio amateurs for instance Following the West Coast Computer Faire, the next two years were ones of Steve Wozniak Manager, Media Tools, Apple Though more than 100 million spreadsheets poets instead of bankers. actually did. BOB: Sure. says so! up with so few chips, when I was done I said hey, a computer that you could in a prime spot negotiated by Steve Jobs, sat the Apple II. and flew out. the switches and he loaded BASIC with paper tape into the Altair. From his own Silicon Valley garage, author Bob Cringley puts PC bigshots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories. converting the BASIC for the 8080. It's no coincidence that the only woman in the vicinity looks bored, them is to understand that revolution. Ed Roberts 6. Bob: Twenty-one! … At least the A stylish, charismatic guy with many impressive skills; he was popular with the guys and girls alike. But I think everybody was too busy for something previously thought useless. different from PC pioneers like Apple, or Microsoft -- nerds who share a It explores the development of the personal computer in the United States from World War II to 1995. computer all there was was a mock-up on a magazine cover yet within five
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