Top Notch documentary
This was a fantastic documentary. I learned a great deal from it. The quality was just excellent. I've been recommending this to a lot of people at work and they also agree. There could have been a lot more done about Fairchild: I would have liked a miniseries instead of a one shot deal. I was really upset when the credits rolled and there was no more to watch.
Before Gates and Jobs came the true pioneers of computers
I got this for my dad as a Father's Day gift and he enjoyed it. Learning about the development of Silicon Valley is an interesting tale because it shows what a few brilliant people can make into a multibillion dollar industry. I like the American Experience series on PBS and this DVD is also very well done. I would recommend getting it for anyone interested in computing or our modern technological world.
Gates and Jobs Owe EVERYTHING to These Guys
So much of Tech History is focused on Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, but without the revolutionary steps in computer HW design from 1957 to 1971 neither of them would have had the computing HW available to bring computers "to the masses". This documentary covers how a crack team of bright young engineers, mathematicians, and physicists (mostly from Bell Labs) started with big clunky computers based on discrete transistors literally "wired" together, to printed circuit boards, and finally the invention of the single chip microprocessor. And all this evolution happened in just 14 years!!! Also revealed are the origins of Fairchild and INTEL (as well as dozens of famous spinoffs) as these companies were the incubators for this revolutionary new technology. A fascinating film that reveals the names of the lost heroes of the Tech revolution. Robert Noyce is not a household name like Gates and Jobs, but he should be. He was to the development of modern computing HW, what Robert Oppenheimer was...
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