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♪ ♪ ♪ the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars. and mike and carol worry over the bills. >> we went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology that's been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators, tv, oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. >> hello? i'm not here now, but my faithful machine is. >> there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the teleph...

♪ ♪ the average family home, cory practices her violin, christian plays with his cars and mike and carol worry over the bills. >> we went in with pretty much the same technology that's been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators. tv. oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. >> hello? i'm not here now but my faithful machine is. >> there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering mac...

Operating system for your pc, and we'll get a cut of every machine you sell. and in addition, he made sure that it was not an exclusive license. that he was going to be able to sell this software to ibm, but he was also going to be able to sell the same software to the other people. because gates intuited that there were going to be people that would build knockoffs of ibm and the pc clones. >> it was a genius move on the part of bill gates, who was still in his early 20s when he made this decision. and you've got these guys at ibm in their blue shirts and dark ties looking at this company mic...

So when gates said to ibm how about this, we'll write you an operating system for your pc and we will get a cut of every machine you sell, and in addition, he made sure that it was not an exclusive license, that he was going to be able to sell this software to ibm but he was also going to be able to sell the same software to the other people because gates intuited that there were going to be people who would build knock offs of ibm, the pc clones. >> it was a genius move on the part of the bill gates who was still in his early 20s when he makes this decision. you've got these guys at ibm in th...

Little company called microsoft. >> bill gates was that unusual combination of a tech guy who was as good as the best tech guys, but he also had a business sense, and he had a business vision. >> at the time, everyone was making it up as they went along. there was nothing that came before it. there was no personal computer industry. so when gates said to ibm, how about this, we'll write you an operating system for your pc, and we'll get a cut of every machine you sell. and in addition, he made sure that it was not an exclusive license. that he was going to be able to sell this software to ibm,...