Triumph of the Nerds Episode Guide Episode 1 - IMPRESSING THEIR FRIENDS On a diet of coca-cola, pizza, hard rock music and very little sleep, guys like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, invented the personal computer. They did it to impress their friends. But they ended up launching a revolution that changed the world, made Apple a billion dollar company and turned nerds into millionaires. Episode 2 - RIDING THE BEAR To begin with, personal computers were just bought by enthusiasts, until IBM, the mighty maker of mainframes, entered the market. By launching its own PC, IBM opened the way for corporate America to embrace desk-top computers. In every one of them was an operating system from Microsoft, a tiny company compared to IBM. But it was Microsoft that would come out top in the end. Episode 3 - GREAT ARTISTS STEAL At first, pcs were a joy for nerds but a pain for the everyday user. The Xerox Palo Alto research center transformed them into a computer anyone could use. Inspired by their work, Steve Jobs had Apple create the Macintosh, the first really modern pc. But it wasn’t a money-spinner and Jobs was fired from the company he founded. It was a different result for Microsoft’s version of the Palo Alto research. This was Windows 95 and it made Bill Gates the richest man in the world. APT WORLDWIDE * 55 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02110, USA [email protected] * [email protected] * [email protected] APTWW.ORG .