The 3rd movie

The story continues with the fear of the Xerox PARC company. They wanted to stay in the market and came out with the idea of printer, Enternet and even a mouse. Ideas were great but there was no understanding for them. Only one man became involved- Steve Jobs. He changed this ideas into reality. The only problem was the price of such PC. This was the reason why Macintosh was finally created. It was still more expensive than IBM's computers but it meant a revolution. But another problem emerged. It was very hard to print exactly the same thing which was on the computer screen. To improve this new situation, Xerox came up with laser printer. In the same time there were changes in the Apple company and Steve Jobs left.
Microsoft, feeling the right time, emerged by steeling (as Apple said) ideas from Apple's GUI for their Windows, meaning another sucess for Bill Gates. He was again at the right place in a right time. Windows 3 is taking the leading role. However, there are some critiques saying that Windows is not as good as it should be. But Microsoft opposes that they are still improving it by new versions.
Conclusion of the movie and the whole series is that technology is moving so rapidly that nobody is able to predict what the future or even tomoroow will be like.

The 2nd movie

This movie is dealing with the dividing line between young boys who are having fun with creating PC and the real business. There are no more amazing stories about creating PCs in a garage.
In 1980s it is Apple, the company which takes the leading place. Another great company IBM is going its own direction, gives the contract to Bill Gates and Microsoft and creates new PC. IBM is very successful and is becoming a monopoly covering 50% of trade. But there is a problem, the PC is easy to copy. Under the reverse engineering Compaque creates a portable computer and other rivals emerge.
IBM and Bill Gates (Microsoft) are at the turning point. Microsoft decides to go their own way and creates Windows (for PC to be more user-friendly). Gates is driven forward by his incredible desire to win and to be the first one with new idea because he knows that in business you have to be in right place at the right time. Final version of Windows (created by Apple) blows away all rivals.

The 1st movie

It was very interesting to see the beginings of the personal computers. The inventors, young interested white boys from middle-class families, were kind of unreal to me. But I can understand their desire and I believe that it is possible for those children to be ''in the thing''. Young children are very adaptable to new things and it is much more easy for them to learn new things.
Why nerds? I think that those people, ones who are interested in computers, are different. I do not mean generally. But it seems to me that these people do not fit into society and they try to find something to be good at. If somebody says a ''computer expert'', I always imagine a person with glasses and without communication abilities. In this case I see the computer as a friend who never leaves such people alone.
Another thing is the typical ''boy thing'' (it has to do lot with gender) to have a field which they are good at. This is not so important for girls, so this is maybe the reason why there were no girls involved. Another reason is that girls usually do not appear in the technological sphere.
I would like to look at this issue from the psychological aspect as well.

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