Triumph of the Nerds

• Paul Allen has $8 billion dollars and is friends with Bill Gates and invented the personal computer.
• Microsoft occured by accident by just trying to impress their friends.
• Nerd: a someone who uses a computer in order to use a computer.
• Edwin's friends think of him as a friend, but he doesn't mind.
• Worked on their own time.
• the data is held in a computer by code, known as machine language.
• Grace Hopper invented the English language into binary code.
• nerds wanted their own computers, but it took a technological breakthrough for that to happen.
• Intel started 28 years ago, and invented the chip.
• the people with the power are the ones that understand what's going on.
• Intel didn't appreciate the brilliance of their own product, and had all the elements necessary, but just didn't get the concept.
• Altair 8800 was the first Minicomputer kit and was to be built yourself, and usually didn't work in the end.
• by New Mexico, MITS was in progress of being bankrupt.
• Turning the Altair required a programming language instead of flipping switches.