Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires Season 1

Select season:
awaiting 5 votes
1x01 Impressing Their Friends aired Jun 12, 1996

Tim Paterson's development of 86-DOS largely from duplicating Gary Kildall's CP/M operating system. Microsoft purchased all rights to 86-DOS from Paterson's ... read more

awaiting 5 votes
1x02 Riding The Bear aired Jun 12, 1996

Compaq's successful reverse-engineering of the IBM PC, which led to many competitors producing IBM-clones that undercut IBM's own offering. While IBM was one... read more

awaiting 5 votes
1x03 Great Artists Steal aired Jun 12, 1996

Steve Jobs, having viewed a demonstration of Xerox's Star graphical user interface, developed a desktop manager for the Macintosh with an icon-based interfac... read more

Activity

Followers (5)

view all ยป