Podcast 036 - Kevin Groves on Pirates of Silicon Valley
Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast
English - April 10, 2017 00:00 - 42 minutes - 40.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTechnology Education How To computer programming software technology lightning talks Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Kevin Groves talks about the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley and the history of personal computing. Note: this is an extra large episode of Cross Cutting Concerns. This is a very broad, historical topic, so it could have easily gone a lot longer!
Show Notes:
Pirates of Silicon Valley is available on Amazon
The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. We couldn't find the issue rummaging through the basement: it may have been destroyed by flooding a few years ago
Xerox PARC's Alto
To drive home the point about GUI software, check out this video on the history of widgets from 1990.
Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs at Macworld 1999
Obligatory Steve Ballmer clip
Story from 1982 by Andy Hertzfeld about the interview with Steve Jobs depicted in the movie
Steve Wozniak on the accuracy of Pirates of Silicon Valley
Footage of Macworld 1997 in Boston, where Bill Gates appears on screen
I could add a million more links, but instead why don't you leave a comment with your favorite quote, clip, or story about the events that transpired in the movie?
Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical.
Theme music is "Crosscutting Concerns" by The Dirty Truckers, check out their music on Amazon or iTunes.