Casts:
Noah Wyle - Steve Jobs
Joey Slotnick - Steve Wozniak
Anthony Michael Hall - Bill Gates
John DiMaggio - Steve Ballmer
Josh Hopkins - Paul Allen
Director: Martyn Burke
STORY:
*This tech-world biopic traces the fortunes of personal-computer
companies Apple and Microsoft from their obscure dorm-room and backyard
origins to their very public battle for corporate supremacy.
*Based on the Book: "Fire on the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer"
*Berkeley 1971 - The scene cuts to the University of Berkley campus, 1971, amidst a tear
gas and students rioting, a young Jobs and Wozniak dash to safety.
*Harvard University 1974 - Bill Gates's story starts when he is a Harvard student more interested in poker than classes. However, for Bill and his friend Paul Allen, there is one thing more important than poker or even Playboys, and that is, of course, computers. In following an ad in a trade magazine with some fast talking by Bill,
and their collective genius, Bill and Paul are hired to start writing a
program language for the new ALTAIR computer.
*Berkeley 1976 (Homebrew Computer Lab) - Jobs and Woz unveil their latest computer. It is obvious that while it is Wozniak's genius that built the computer, it was Jobs' genius that sells it.
*Albuquerque 1976 - Bill and Paul had quit Harvard and Bill's fast talking at the computer
company MITS (maker of the ALTAIR) earned them a signing bonus and a
double in royalties for their BASIC programming language, with that,
Microsoft is born. It is during these years in Albuquerque, fueled by
his own manic personality that Bill does everything from having a
midnight race with bulldozers, to racking up so many speeding tickets
that he is arrested and jailed.
*Albuquerque 1977 - Microsoft's First Office
*Computer Faire in San Francisco 1977 - Apple Computers Inc. was the star of the Fair
*Microsoft Offices Seattle in 1980
*All-one Commune Oregon
*Xerox Palo-Alto Research Center - Apple “steals” the mouse as well as the graphics from XEROX.
*3 Mos. later, John Sculley fired Steve Jobs
*Steve Wozniak teaches computer in children
*Bill Gates is currently the World's Most Wealthiest Man
*Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 and he finally accept Lisa as his daughter in his new family