Question+3+T6

Team6_Ex1

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

The movie pirates of the sillicon valley contains a lot of important historical facts, many are parallel to the movie, per say, to fill space in the movie, while some are actual facts that did happen.

Some of the small facts are that Steve wozniak did make the blue boxes and he did call the pope with it. In the other hand Bill gates was a horrible driver that allways got pulled over for speeding, and he did crash a bulldozer (he raced bulldozers for fun) into Paul's brand new car.

Some of these are that Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs did start making computers at Steve's garage, and they did sell their van and 2 calculators in order to raise the 1,300 USD, after they started inventing Wozniak had to show all of it to HP, as they got first call at anything he invented, so he showed them the first prototype... They hated it, which allowed steve to start selling computers. they rejected Steve Wozniak by saying: who needs a personal computer The Altair PC did exist, and Bill gates thought he could make an operating system for it, so he went to Albuquerque and talked to the inventors of altair, after he negotiated for a long time he managed to get a deal, in which he would get a good amount of money and they gave him an Altair. The Pc's that apple created during the movie did exist, just like the Apple II, Lisa and the macintosh, being the most succesful pc that apple had.

The engineers of california did try to sell the mouse idea to the Xerox corporates (since the engineers worked for Xerox), an idea that they found extremely funny, hence, they rejected it. aAfter apple found out about this, they went to meet the california engineers, and they happily showed them all they work, and as Jobs said: "a good artist copies, a great artist steals". So, if you didn't guess what happened next, apple stole the mouse idea from them, and sold it. afterward Xerox was interviewed about it: they claimed that they allowed appple`s group to see their inventions in exchange for some apple`s actions.

Steve Jobs hired Jake Sculley, who worked for Pepsi co. at the time, so Jake started working for Apple, but after Steve Job`s 30-year birthday he was fired. Steve JObs returned to Apple later on when Apple bought NeXT, he also bought Pixar. A false information in the movie was the fact that when Jake Scully arrived to the company he has to redirect Apple from the Apple III computer, where as in the movie is depicted as if it was from the Macintouch to the Apple II. before Steve Jobs was fired, the other fundator of apple: Steve Woz, quit the company.

When Bill Gates went to IBM to sell them an operative system, he was totally bluffing, after they made the deal with IBM they went to buy the operative system from this dude who did not know what it would be used for, they bought it for 50,000 USD, and later on made one of the greatest fortunes with it. the man to whom they brought the Ms-DOS (disk operating systems) was flabergasted because he tought it was a great deal of money they were offering to him.

the director of the movie didn`t wanted to make An offical movie, which means he didn`t actually interview the characters, he just search for information about them, still there are details that turn out to be truth. as the fact that Steve Jobs did put his bare feet over a table while interviewing a person. we can say that on the movie we are able to see the main truth of the: Steve and Bill are not s important as it seems.

Steve Jobs saw everything he did as a spiritual journey, and when they got the new Apple building they hung an apple-modified pirate flag (because it was better to be a pirate than to join the navy).

The most expensive commercial of the time was the Apple commercial, aired at the Super Bowl, in which a woman wearing a shirt with a mac in it destroyed Big Brother (a reference to IBM). The comercial was redone a few years ago but this time the woman was hearing an iPod.

(NOT IN THE MOVIE BUT INTERESTING) When asked about it, neither Steve gives a good answer as to why the company is named Apple; Woz has said that when building computers in a garage you do not care about the name. But the original logo had Newton and the famous apple