Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

["Don DeCosta" <DonD@miec.com>]

Not only was the IBM PC in MS offices an anachronism, but the "Everything I
Need to Know, I Learned From Star Trek" poster in the Berkely dorm room was
a little out of place.  And the snazzy Apple //e monitor sitting on top of
the Apple ][s at the 1977 West Coast Computer Faire...  The black and white
Apple logo in Apple's lobby during the height of the Rainbow logo days...

Is there a discussion on-line of the many production errors in the movie?  I
can accept story facts being massaged for a dramatic effect, but I think
things like Bill typing on a IBM PC before it was created is where the real
fun is.

Don

Andrew W Molloy wrote in message <377104ba.0@news.syr.edu>...
>One scene that had me scratching my head was just before Gates and pals
>were heading for the meeting with IBM to negotiate the DOS deal. They
>showed Microsoft's office with what looked like an IBM PC on the desk.
>Was the IBM PC released before MS licensed them the DOS operating system?
>
>Andy
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