I gather from you making that thread after seeing the Steve Jobs movie, that you're interested in the story of the how the microcomputer came about.
If I've assumed right, then you share that with me. I've been obsessed with it for the last 20 years.
And I'll tell you why. It's because you and I just happened to live at the time a seminal moment in human history was occurring. And an argument could be made that it will prove to make all earlier seminal moments in human history insignificant in comparison. And that moment is the advent of the microcomputer (prefaced by the inventions of the transistor and integrated circuit and microprocessor).
And as with all seminal moments in history, the human personalities who made it all happen are always the most compelling part of the story.
So, what is this leading to. Well it's that I found a Vanity Fair article from 2011 that I was unaware of until now.
It was written by Paul Allen, one of the Fab Four personalites in the story (Gates, Allen, Jobs and Wozniak). So it's coming from the horse's mouth.
And it turns out Allen is not only a technological wizard, but he's equally adept at telling the story of how it all happened, at least the part of it he was involved in. Best eyewitness account I've run across so far. Really gives you a feel for who these people were and how it happened. And more than anything it's the most interesting glimpse into who Bill Gates actually is/was than anything else I've read.
Give it a read.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/05/paul-allen-201105
If I've assumed right, then you share that with me. I've been obsessed with it for the last 20 years.
And I'll tell you why. It's because you and I just happened to live at the time a seminal moment in human history was occurring. And an argument could be made that it will prove to make all earlier seminal moments in human history insignificant in comparison. And that moment is the advent of the microcomputer (prefaced by the inventions of the transistor and integrated circuit and microprocessor).
And as with all seminal moments in history, the human personalities who made it all happen are always the most compelling part of the story.
So, what is this leading to. Well it's that I found a Vanity Fair article from 2011 that I was unaware of until now.
It was written by Paul Allen, one of the Fab Four personalites in the story (Gates, Allen, Jobs and Wozniak). So it's coming from the horse's mouth.
And it turns out Allen is not only a technological wizard, but he's equally adept at telling the story of how it all happened, at least the part of it he was involved in. Best eyewitness account I've run across so far. Really gives you a feel for who these people were and how it happened. And more than anything it's the most interesting glimpse into who Bill Gates actually is/was than anything else I've read.
Give it a read.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/05/paul-allen-201105