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A PowerPoint for school students used as an introduction to the episodes of the Triumph of the Nerds TV series.
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Triumph of the Nerds B A Thomas
The presenter
Robert X Cringely
The story of the PC …
The MITS Altair 8800
In the early 1970s most computers were mainframes
Bill Gates in 1977
Bill Gates and Paul Allen in the late 1970s
Paper tape was used to input programs
Jobs and Woz about 1976
The Apple 1 mother board sold for $666.They sold about 50 to hobbyists.
One of the first Apple 1s
The Apple 2 in 1977.A modern looking computer.
Visicalc – the first Spreadsheet and first useful program on a PC
Big Blue – the major mainframe manufacturer
Riding the Bear
Open Architecture
Microsoft did Languages not Operating Systems
Bill Gates Garry Kildall
Tim Patterson wrote an OS based on CPM
CPM
MS DOS
Advert for the IBM PC 1981
Lotus 123 – The Killer Application for the IBM PC
A BIOS window
Compaq portableThe first clone/IBM compatible
Amstrad
Apricot
Dell
PC Clones
IBM’s doomed Operating SystemWas meant to replace MS-DOS.
OS/2
A quote from Pablo Picasso
Great Artists Steal – Part 3(Good artists copy)
California
Silicon Valley
Windows 95 launch1st really usable version
Xerox – “copier heads”
The first computer mouse
The Apple Lisa = failure
And so was the Mac …….
Until it got its killer application!
The Future?
Google and Apple?Web based OS &
applications?Thin client networks?
Netbooks?
Netbooks
Google OS might look something like this
