Triumph of the Nerds Part I

The film’s topic is interesting, I saw  another film about Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and the origin of their business before. Something I didn’t know, was what have been the first “personal computer” and who made it, I used to think that it was created by Apple, now I know it started as a “computer kit”, and that it wasnt designed by Microsoft or Apple. I was surprised with this, how this kit was sold regardless his incapability to do something useful, I think this is surprising because this means that two facts were properly exploited, the business model and the curiosity about the computing stuff. 

Something I admire about the people that started to create, innovate and research about computation is that most them started at their garages, they weren’t privileged people, they were just regular students that wanted to make more accessible the tech to the ordinary people. As they said, they didn’t start for money, they were expected to lose it instead of winning money, but they took the risk. Another interesting thing was how Intel innovate the computing field with their processors, and it was funny too how the film expose that Intel could have innovated the personal computing designs by themselves due to their processors, but they lost the opportunity. 

Also, it is interesting to see how these startups started their formal business, how they structured their work in a nonconventional way. I hope to see in the second part how Microsoft started his participation in the personal computing field, because this part was focused in the Apple innovations and the beginning of the computation and his commercial distribution. Finally, I also hope to explore more the Intel innovations through the years with the computers, I want to see how the Moore’s law was applied and helped us to reach the computing power that we have.