Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[Jeff Thomas <a2forever@usa.net>]

Greg Buchner wrote:

> > And brilliant, "Pirates of Silicon Valley" movie.
> But innaccurate at times.

I guess, they needed to balance entertainment with reality. But it does
provide a fairly good picture of what went on, at that time.

The lead actors were very good and looked convincing in their parts;
Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates and John Di Maggio as Steve Ballmer of
the M$ camp and Noah Wyle (ER) as Steve Jobs and Joey Slotnick as Steve
Wozniak of Apple.

It would be cool, if they've done other legandary computer companies like
Commodore. Perhaps, their history isn't as exciting.


> Steve Jobs did not go to Xerox PARC as the conquering hero.  He had to
> be dragged over there.  And Apple did pay Xerox $1 million in Apple
> stock for the privilege of going there to get ideas.  Xerox later sold
> the stock for $7 million if I remember correctly.

I never knew that.