The documentary Triumph of the Nerds summarizes the early history of the personal computer, including the development of key machines like the MITS Altair 8800 and Apple I, the founding of Microsoft by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and the launch of the IBM PC in 1981 which helped drive adoption of personal computers. It explores the roles of software developers like VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin in creating early useful applications, and how Microsoft's MS-DOS became the dominant operating system over rival CP/M. The film examines the rise of Silicon Valley as the epicenter of technology innovation and the launch of Windows 95 as a milestone in usability.

1. Triumph of the Nerds B A Thomas

2. The presenter Robert X Cringely

3. The story of the PC … The MITS Altair 8800

4. In the early 1970s most computers were mainframes

5. Bill Gates in 1977

6. Bill Gates and Paul Allen in the late 1970s

7. Paper tape was used to input programs

8. Jobs and Woz about 1976

9. The Apple 1 mother board sold for $666. They sold about 50 to hobbyists.

10. One of the first Apple 1s

11. The Apple 2 in 1977. A modern looking computer.

12. Visicalc – the first Spreadsheet and first useful program on a PC

13. Big Blue – the major mainframe manufacturer

14. Riding the Bear

16. Open Architecture

17. Microsoft did Languages not Operating Systems

18. Bill Gates Garry Kildall

19. Tim Patterson wrote an OS based on CPM

20. CPM

21. MS DOS

22. Advert for the IBM PC 1981

23. Lotus 123 – The Killer Application for the IBM PC

25. A BIOS window

26. Compaq portable The first clone/IBM compatible

27. PC Clones Dell Amstrad Apricot

28. OS/2 IBM’s doomed Operating System Was meant to replace MS-DOS.

29. Great Artists Steal – Part 3(Good artists copy) A quote from Pablo Picasso

30. California

31. Silicon Valley

32. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley

33. Windows 95 launch1st really usable version

34. Xerox – “copier heads”

36. The first computer mouse

37. The Apple Lisa = failure

38. And so was the Mac …….

39. Until it got its killer application!

40. The Future?

41. Google and Apple? Web based OS & applications? Thin client networks? Netbooks?

42. Netbooks

43. Google OS might look something like this