Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[mpike@nmia.com (Mike Pike)]

HAHAHA!!!
I WAS THERE MAN!!!!!

:) - I think the reason they didnt outline Commodore and the other
companies is because none of them are around anymore... and you must
remember a majority of computer users these days don't know what a
Commodore is, so they covered the two big guys that everyone would relate
to....

Personally - I don't like MacOS - but it's truly amazing what apple put on
a single disk for the GS, and what MS does on a CD... I think Apple
definitely had the better programmers hands down... I saw the TNT movie -
and while it had it's share of innaccuracies - it was a good movie.

I would like to see a real hollywood movie made to portray the entire
history of computers though.... even if it is a 4 hour movie :)

I'm a geek at heart I guess...  I always wanted an Apple ][plus after our
school got one.. but the $2500 price tag (and WAY BACK THEN TO BOOT) kept
it far out of our reach... now I am a programmer and am fortunate enough
to afford the toys I want.. now I collect old machines, and Apple's are
the main ones I try to get my hands on...

Mike


sheercon@earthlink.net wrote:
: TEXAS II - AppleWorks wrote:
: 
: > > It's funny reading through this thread with people yelling, "*I* was there
: > man!" (like some post-Woodstock battle cry)
: >
: > You must be new to Apple II, Brian. This is the way we are. You bet we were
: > there, and it was great. (oh, we were at Woodstock, too...)
: 
: My Uncle used to say this about Woodstock - "If you can remember it, you wern't
: there!".
: 
: I was "there" when the first Apple's came onto the market; although I was only
: about 10. I went to school nearby and they donated some computers to our school
: - I used to play Oregon trail and a few other games on them. I wanted an Apple
: but they were too expensive so I ended up with a Commodore Vic-20 a few years
: later. Were no mentions made of Commodore in the movie? At their peak they were
: selling 10 times more computers than Apple was.
: 
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