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Question3: Describe all the important historical facts that happened in the movie Pirates of the Silicon Valley.


 * Steve Wozniak developed the blue box, a device used to make free international phone calls, he was developing his first computer.
 * Altair 8800 was developed and brought into the market, it was useful but not very practical since it had to be assembled by the user with a kit
 * Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Traf-O-Data, and then Microsoft
 * Bill Gates drops Harvard to work on the operating system for Altair 8800
 * Bill gates developd M-DOS, an operative system for the Altair 8800, they gained 30% royalty on every Altair
 * Bill Gates sold the DOS operating system to IBM, which was implemented for the first personal computer, the IBM PC
 * Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple after dropping school. They started with very little money working in Wozniak's garage. When they invented the Apple I, Wozniak went to his bosses at HP to offer it to them, because they where afraid HP will stole there idea, but they rejected it, instead they sold 25 to a store in California.
 * Apple II was developed and it was shown at a fair as well as the Altair computer. Apple II was very successfull while Altair computer was left behind. This was Apple's first step to be a great computer company.
 * Steve Jobs and his team were invited to the Xerox research facility, where they saw their innovative GUI and mouse, which they later used for the apple LISA, Steve Jobs named the computer "Lisa" after his illegitimate daughter.
 * Bill Gates and his colleagues were invited to Apple to develop programmes (Gates earned Jobs' confidence)
 * Steve Jobs hired John Sculley to be the CEO of Apple
 * Bill gates copied th GUI of Apple
 * Jobs sued Gates because of copyright infringement for using the GUI Apple had created.
 * Microsoft developed Windows 1.0
 * IBM was referred to as Big Brother by Apple in an ad directed by Ridley Scott, which was aired in the Superbowl.
 * Jobs was fired from Apple and then bought part of Pixar.
 * Wozniak started teaching computer to kids.
 * Bill Gates became the richiest man on Earth and owned part of Apple's shares
 * Jobs came back to Apple in 1997