The Silicon Valley story

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Movie
German title The Silicon Valley story
Original title Pirates of Silicon Valley
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Martyn Burke
script Paul Freiberger ,
Michael Swaine ,
Martyn Burke
production Leanne Moore
music Frank Fitzpatrick
camera Ousama Rawi
cut Richard Halsey
occupation

The Silicon Valley Story is a 1999 biographical television film directed by Martyn Burke , based on the book Fire in the Valley: Making of the Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine . He describes the evolution of home computers and personal computers in relation to the rivalry between Apple Inc. and Microsoft .

The story of the film begins in the early 1970s. It ends with the power struggle between Steve Jobs and John Sculley and Jobs' subsequent split from Apple .

action

The film is told from the perspective of Steve Wozniak and Steve Ballmer . He begins shooting the popular Apple commercial " 1984, " directed by Ridley Scott , following a flashover to an Apple press conference in 1997 at which Steve Jobs announced a collaboration with his greatest rival, Bill Gates .

After that, the real story begins in 1971. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are selling their Blue Box , a device that can be used to (illegally) make free calls. On the side, Steve Wozniak developed a computer that Jobs initially didn't think much of.

Then the story of is Bill Gates , Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer told that at the Harvard University study and for the Altair 8800 by MITS a BASIC - interpreter write.

In the course of the film, the rise of both companies is described in alternating fades. At Apple the building of the Apple I and Apple II , at Microsoft the development of the BASIC and the coup with their MS-DOS .

One of the main topics remains the tensions between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, such as the dispute over the development of the graphical user interface , although it was not developed by one of the two companies, but by Xerox .

The film ends where it began: when the collaboration between Microsoft and Apple was announced at a press conference in 1997.

Joey Slotnick and Steve Wozniak

Others

At the opening address of the Macworld Expo New York City in July 1999, Noah Wyle first appeared and pretended to be Steve Jobs. In the further course of the event only Steve Jobs himself appeared.

The computer fair shown in the film, at which Apple made its first appearance, refers to The First West Coast Computer Faire in April 1977 in San Francisco, the world's largest computer fair at the time. In addition to Apple and MITS , the film also features stands from companies such as Cromemco , Heathkit , Dynabyte and Vector Graphic , which were also actually exhibitors at the fair. In total, the fair had around 180 exhibitors and attracted 12,000 visitors.

Awards

  • Nominated for 5 Emmys (1999)

music

The film uses titles from classic rock , disco and new wave from the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report from the MacWorld Expo 1999 ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Awards for The Silicon Valley Story
  3. ↑ Pirates Of Silicon Valley: Soundtrack . IMDB. Retrieved December 12, 2015.