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Triumph of the Nerds is aloof one of the best public level documentaries about the origins and development of personal computers from their beginnings in the mid-70′s on through the IBM/Apple years and into the mid-90′s with the originate of Windows 95. It is dated somewhat, especially at the waste with the forecasts about the future growth of the internet and what it would mean to PC and Mac development and the world. Nothing was truer then than remains today, predicting the long-term future of the computer and internet industry is simply impossible.
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What troubles me with this edition by Ambrose is that they have apparently sacrificed bits and pieces here and there for some unfathomable reason. The main points are all collected there, but some of the side stories and flavors have been slash. Examples include Steve Wozniak’s description of his early interest in electronics in finding an faded AT&T phone company manual to learn to hack into the phone system to call the Pope. It cuts Steve Jobs’ description of his early experiences with Bill Gates, saying that the unique version of Word was “objective awful but they kept at it…”, and someone whose name I can’t remember describing the early mainframes and trying to employ one as “you were lucky if your entire city had one mainframe, and, if your company had it, there would only be one.” These are the ones I noticed upright off, I’m certain there are others and they are minor things, but it’s troubling that a company buys the rights to a note and edits it for whatever reason rather than simply giving us the whole deal.
And we have THEM to thank for all of this.
Your humble author can’t encourage but wonder how Bob Cringely got the likes of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Paul Allen and others in front of the cameras for an unprejudiced spy inside the slightly bent minds that begat the personal computer.
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At 3 hours in length, “Triumph of the Nerds” isn’t unbiased a PBS miniseries. On home video, it becomes an record. And why shouldn’t it be? The personal computer has an impact on our lives equal to that of the light bulb and the automobile. But in the case of the PC, most of the people responsible for its creation and worldwide influence are peaceful alive. These are flesh and blood humans, not fading historical sketches like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.
“Triumph of the Nerds” was originally produced as a 20-year retrospective on the personal computer. But the PC will be 25 years veteran in the year 2000. I can’t wait to glance Bob Cringely’s follow up.
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