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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ so youve just bought your first personal computer, youve brought it home from the store, youre unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if youve just bought your first personal computer, this show is for you. >> computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. it was a brick, right? that sat in your house and let you do amazing things that youd never been able to do before, but it was essentially a productivity tool. >> now that we have all these very po...

Computers today. >> microsoft was making a lot of money then. they were charging $200, $300, $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. >> hardworking, modest, easy-going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret, but well fix that. is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? >> it depends on the size of the chair but this chair, probably so. >> yes! >> i took a step before i did ...

>> today, were introducing microsoft windows version 3. >> bill gates, part thomas edison, part henry ford, part holden caulfield from "catcher in the rye." at 19, he dropped out of harvard to design computer software with his friend paul allen. they came up with a system that operates 90% of the personal computers today. >> microsoft was making a lot of money then. they were charging $200, $300, $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on flo...

They were charging $200, $300, $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. >> hard dwl work, modest, easy-going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret. but well fix that. is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? >> it depends on the size of the chair but this chair, probably so. >> yes! >> i took a step before i did it. >> thats okay. >> bill gates wasnt just one thing. he wa...

>> microsoft was making a lot of money then. they were charging $200, $300, $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. >> hard working, modest, easy going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret. but well fix that. is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? >> it depends on the size of the chair but this chair, probably so. >> yes! >> i took a step before i did it. >> thats oka...

>> microsoft was making a lot of money then. they were charging $200, $300, $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. >> hardworking, modest, easy going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret. but well fix that. is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? >> it depends on the size of the chair but this chair, probably so. >> yes! >> i took a step before i did it. >> thats okay...

They were charging $200, $300, $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. >> hard working, modest, easy going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret. but well fix that. is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? >> it depends on the size of the chair but this chair, probably so. >> yes! >> i took a step before i did it. >> thats okay. >> bill gates wasnt just one thing. he was...

Money then. they were charging $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. >> hard working, modest, easy going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret. but well fix that. >> is it true you can leap over a chair from a standing position. >> it depends on the size of the chair, but this chair, probably so. >> yes! >> i took a step before i did it. >> thats okay. >> bill gates wasnt just one thing. he was ...

Computers today. >> microsoft was making a lot of money then. they were charging $200, $300, $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. >> hard working, modest, easy going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret. but well fix that. is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? >> it depends on the size of the chair but this chair, probably so. >> yes! >> i took a step before i did...

$400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. >> hard working, modest, easy going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret. but well fix that. is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? >> it depends on the size of the chair but this chair, probably so. >> yes! >> i took a step before i did it. >> thats okay. >> bill gates wasnt just one thing. he was a brilliant guy. had great par...