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Triumph of the Nerds Part II

The second part of triumph of the nerds is a documentary of how the first personal computer, as we know it, was born. An interesting story of how a single group of nerds revolutionized the way we work, the way we talk... as a matter of fact, the way they changed everything. It all started with Intel. Well, everyone tells that they first thought of the PC as a means to say that you thought about it first... but you didn't actually do it. So Intel had everything to make the first PC, they made this things that were used for processing at the time, and had a lot of years doing them. From transistors to microprocessors, they had the expertise no one had, but didn't found a way to making the first PC possible. Another big giant was IBM, who made a lot of progress in the area and made the first personal computer architecture a reality, but they lacked one thing: an operating system. That's were Microsoft had the shot. Microsoft was a very little company, but they had the gu