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PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY Directed by: Martyn Burke Based on: Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine's book Fire in the Vall

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PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY Directed by: Martyn Burke Based on: Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine's book Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer Characters:  Steve Jobs  Steve Wozniak  Mike Markkula  John Sculley  Arlene  Daniel Kottke  Elizabeth Holmes  Ridley Scott

 Bill Gates  Paul Allen  Steve Ballmer  Ed Roberts

Sequence:  Steve Jobs opens the film talking to director, Ridley Scott. “I don’t want you to think of this as just a film” “We’re here to make a dent in the universe, otherwise why even be here?” “We’re creating a completely new consciousness” Setting: Anthony Michael Hall where the 1984 commercial for Apple Computer was filmed.  Announcement of alliance between Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates of Microsoft. -during 1997, the return of Steve Jobs to Apple.  Riot Scene (Student anti-war movements) at the University of California, Berkeley during 1971. -“Those guys thinks they’re revolutionaries, they’re not. We are” – Jobs -Woz described how Jobs was different from everyone else. -“Information is Power” -Steve was able to sell Woz’s invention of blue boxes.  Introduction of Bill Gates and his friends at Harvard University, 1974. -Steve Ballmer narrates Gates side of the story. -Ballmer described how Gates is the kind of person who’s not likely to lose.  Paul Allen and Bill Gates’ building of computer language for the Altair 8800 Project by Ed Roberts from Albuquerque. -ALTAIR BASIC

 Berkeley 1976, Homebrew Computer Club. -People spend their time trying to get access to computers by the local corporations. They will go here and show the stuff they built. -The moment where Woz and Jobs realized what they wanted to do. -“A personal computer that people will want to buy” -Woz explained how he wasn’t good at talking to people back then, but Jobs was amazing.  Apple Computers was founded at Jobs parents’ garage with Woz, Dan, Elizabeth and their other friends. -Getting Rejected from Banks for Loans because of his looks. -Mike Markkula “the man who put intelligence to intel-Jobs” offered to invest on Apple Computers. (This was where Apple Computers Expand and move forward)  Bill Gates and Paul Allen dropped out of college. -Moved to Albuquerque to work for MITS (Micro Instrumentation & Telemetry Systems) -July 1975, Started Microsoft. -Gates attitude was shown as a lying and manipulating man.  Computer Faire San Franciso 1977. -Jobs, Woz, and Markkula demo the Apple II. (A machine with 62 chips and Ics) -Paul and Bill went here and saw the Altair Booth with no one on their side unlike the Apple Computers. -The success of Apple Computers Started here.  Microsoft and IBM agreement. 1980s -Development of the IBM-PC with the help of Microsoft. -Operating System called DOS (Disk Operating System) -Microsoft is on its way but Steve Jobs of Apple is becoming a huge star.  John Sculley as the new president of Apple Computers.  Computer “Lisa” - Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal. -Picasso -Xerox’s invention of the mouse and the GUI (Graphics User Interface) -Gates wanting computer “Lisa”  Jobs agreed to work with Gates with the mention of IBM. -Giving Macintosh prototypes to Microsoft. -Gates working on Macintosh and stealing its software to build Windows.  Jobs realized his mistake. -his men brought computers from Japan full of Microsoft programs almost identical to them. -Gates admitted how he wanted to steal from Xerox first.

 Steve Jobs’ 30th Birthday. -John Sculley made a toast for Jobs and fired him at Apple, 3 months later.  The film stated what happened to everyone else. -Woz teaches computers to school children and funds a ballet. -Jobs reconciled with Arlene and Lisa being part of their new family.  Jobs returned to Apple in 1997. - Jobs standing on a platform and Gates on the Big Screen looking down at Steve. -Microsoft now owns part of Apple Computer -Bill Gates is now the wealthiest man on earth.

Notes: Apple I  is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976.  It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer.  The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his van and Woz sold his HP-65 calculator for $500.  It was demonstrated in July 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California. Apple II  An 8-bit home computer, designed by Steve Wozniak. Steve Jobs oversaw the development of the Apple II's foam-molded plastic case and Rod Holt developed the switching power supply. The first consumer product sold by Apple Computer.  Apple II had the defining feature of being able to display color graphics, and this capability was the reason why the Apple logo was redesigned to have a spectrum of colors. Silicon Valley  The word "silicon" originally referred to the large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers in the region, but the area is now the home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, thousand startup companies etc.  Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in the northern part of the U.S. state of California. The "valley" in its name refers to the Santa Clara Valley in Santa Clara County, which includes the city of San Jose and surrounding cities and towns. Paul Allen and Bill Gates passion are Computers. Altair Project 8800, Albuquerque by Ed Roberts. The Project Needs a Computer Language. They Gave it to them and they got the Altair as a gift. Gates telling IBM they can give them an operating system called DOS (Disk Operating System), and that’s where the filmed pointed out through “Ballmer” that this scene was historic, that Gates is the richest man in the world because of what started in that room. But even though he lied, it was successful. Paul Allen bought an operating system from a small computer company in Seattle for $50,000. John Sculley a former president of Pepsi cola as the new President of Apple Computers. “Do you wanna sell sugared water for the rest of your life, or do you wanna change the world and come with me?” – Jobs convincing Sculley. Steve Jobs Persuaded Xerox into showing them their inventions. Woz narrates that he feels like he’s looting from a defenseless village. Woz said Xerox gave their inventions to them like junks, a junk that turned out to be Rembrandt and a hundred billion dollars head start on everyone else.

On the other hand, Apple was tearing itself to pieces, Macintosh Group Vs. Apple II Everyone Else as described by Woz making him quit apple and said he’s going back to college. Gates' and Allen's early work with MITS is juxtaposed against the involvement of Jobs and Wozniak with the "Homebrew Computer Club". Markkula was introduced to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak when they were looking for funding to manufacture the Apple II personal computer they had developed. --(About the film) – it explores the impact of the rivalry between Jobs (Apple Computer) and Gates (Microsoft) on the development of the personal computer. There was something beyond what you see every day -Jobs Stealing doesn't mean (stealing), it means one can do more than what one did. Someone can make it better and they did.

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tradition though, prices have already begun to fall. Corsair has since released its Vengeance LPX line at the same density and speed for $1,600. Latest Data Storage Device -60tb SSD by Seagate -Seagate Technology has taken the wraps off of an unbelievable 60TB solid state drive (pictured above) at the Flash Memory Summit in Silicon Valley. The drive features a power efficiency of just 4TB/watt (15 watts total), comes in a 3.5-inch form factor packed with ultra-dense 3D NAND flash from Micron, and delivers more density than two 16TB 2.5-inch SSDs as a result. -from Micron, and delivers more density than two 16TB 2.5-inch SSDs as a result. The 60TB SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) SSD is intended for large-scale enterprise data centers that need maximum storage and compute performance. -The Seagate 60TB SAS SSD is due to arrive sometime in 2017, the company says. As for price, we imagine it’s a classic case of “if you have to ask,” though Seagate is promising the lowest cost-per-gigabyte on the market today. That said, the company is calling the 60TB SAS SSD a “technology demonstration,” so it may still have some work to do on the reliability side before it’s ready for sale. - almost quadrupling the size of the 16TB SSD that Samsung announced last year and began shipping this past March for a cool $10,000. -Samsung starts shipping the world's largest capacity SSD It packs 16 terabytes in a 2.5-inch container. -Samsung has started shipping the 16TB (well, okay, 15.36TB) SSD it showed off at the Flash Memory Summit in California last year. The company says the positively tiny, 2.5-inch drive has the largest capacity among all the SSDs in the world. -samsung PM1633a -Samsung started to ship its PM1633a SSD with 15.36 TB capacity to select customers in March and recently it began to supply the drive to select resellers as well. The enterprise-class SSD is now offered by two U.S.-based retailers and can be purchased for ~$10,000, which makes it one of the world’s most expensive commercial solid-state drives. -PM1633a / PM1633 – First-class read speed and capacity. PM1633a / PM1633 is suitable for online transaction processing (OLTP) and database(DB) applications deployed in an all-flash array configuration. Built on V-NAND technology, the PM1633a / PM1633 exceeds HDDs in both speed and capacity, achieving valuable cost effectiveness and outstanding reliability.