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$24,000 for jennings and $21,600 for rutter. >> i think we both got a taste of what it might have been like to play against us. >> reporter: this is how the computer worked. when show host delivered a clue, a text of the clue was sent to watson, who searched his hard drives for the answer. a long way since that first computer with a hard drive in the 60s which could store one manhattan phone book. watson can hold 12 million of them. in the 80s ibms first pc could understand 5,000 words. watson, ...

Watson earned $77,000 versus $24,000 for jennings and $21,600 for rutter. >> i think we both got a taste of what it might have been like to play against us. >> reporter: this is how the computer worked. when show host delivered a clue, a text of the clue was sent to watson, who searched his hard drives for the answer. a long way since that first computer with a hard drive in the 60s which could store one manhattan phone book. watson can hold 12 million of them. in the 80s ibms first pc could und...

Manhattan phone book. watson can now hold 12 million of them. in the 80s ibms first pc could understand about 5,000 words. watson, 125 billion. sometimes that data misses the human subtlety. >> stylish elegance or students who graduated in the same year. watson. >> what is cheek? >> no, sorry. >> reporter: what is class? >> class, you got it. >> reporter: the mere mortal got it right. sometimes watson just isnt fast enough. cant sift through all that data. the man who helped build him. >> watson...