so you ve just bought your first personal computer, you ve brought it home from the store, you re unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you ve just bought your first personal computer, this show is for you. computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. it was a brick, right? that sat in your house and let you do amazing things that you d never been able to do before, but it was essentially a productivity tool. now that we have all these very powerful tools, we re still islands, and we re still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. apple was in a period of decline. steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985. and he went off and started a company called next. after he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring, unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. so why did you leave apple? well, why did i leave apple? i was asked to leave. yeah, i was asked to leave apple. i was planning on spe
computers today. microsoft was making a lot of money then. they were charging $200, $300, $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. hardworking, modest, easy-going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret, but we ll fix that. is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? it depends on the size of the chair but this chair, probably so. yes! i took a step before i did it. that s okay. bill gates wasn t just one thing. he was a brilliant guy, had great parents, family values. but he was a killer. he basically was a ruthless guy, and so was microsoft. no, no, no, no, no. somebody s confused. somebody s just not thinking. there s no way. we ll figure it out. you guys never understood. you never understood the first thing about this.
today, we re introducing microsoft windows version 3. bill gates, part thomas edison, part henry ford, part holden caulfield from catcher in the rye. at 19, he dropped out of harvard to design computer software with his friend paul allen. they came up with a system that operates 90% of the personal computers today. microsoft was making a lot of money then. they were charging $200, $300, $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. hardworking, modest, easy-going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret, but we ll fix that. is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? it depends on the size of the chair but this chair, probably so. yes!
they were charging $200, $300, $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. hard dwl work, modest, easy-going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret. but we ll fix that. is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? it depends on the size of the chair but this chair, probably so. yes! i took a step before i did it. that s okay. bill gates wasn t just one thing. he was a brilliant guy, had great parents, family values. but he was a killer. he basically was a ruthless guy, and so was microsoft. no, no, no, no, no. somebody s confused. somebody s just not thinking. there s no way. we ll figure it out. you guys never understood. you never understood the first thing about this. a lot of people make the
microsoft was making a lot of money then. they were charging $200, $300, $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. hard working, modest, easy going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret. but we ll fix that. is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? it depends on the size of the chair but this chair, probably so. yes! i took a step before i did it. that s okay. bill gates wasn t just one thing. he was a brilliant guy. had great parents. family values. but he was a killer. he basically was a ruthless guy, and so was microsoft. no, no, no, no, no. somebody s confused. somebody s just not thinking. > there s no way. we ll figure it out. you guys never understood. you never understood the first thing about this. a lot of people make the