>Completely off topic, but worth it, I think:
 
>Last night on KQED, one of our local PBS channels, they aired a three
>hour program on the history of personal computers, entitled "Triumph
>of the Nerds".  They did an excellent job of bringing us up to date
>from Xerox's PARC and New Mexico's MITS right up to events that
>happened just a few weeks ago.  Of course HP was not mentioned once,
>but there was more than enough to go around about Xerox, Intel, IBM,
>MITS, Apple, Lotus, 3Com, Adobe, Visicalc, and a whole lot more.
 
>This show was very well done and I would recommend it highly.  Watch
>for it on your local PBS station, or if you can't find it, you can
>order the video tapes yourself.  I think they said they are $49.95.
>Check at http://www.pbs.org/ .
 
>How come I was doing the same thing these guys were doing at the same
>time they were doing it and I'm still working on my first billion?
 
>/Steve Cooper
 
They neglected to mention (in not mentioning HP) that (1) Silicon
Valley was started in their garage, and that (2) Jobs worked for HP
and only went into Apple because HP wasn't interested in developing
his idea at that time. They also didn't mention that Apple sued
Microsoft AND HP over look and feel (HP for NewWave).