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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ so you've just bought your first personal computer, you've brought it home from the store, you're unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you've 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 you'd never been able to do before, but it was essentially a productivity tool. >> now that we have all these very powerful tools, we're still islands, and we're still not really connecting these people using the...

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 we'll 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. >> that's okay. >> bill gates wasn't just one thing. he was a brilliant guy, had great parents,...

>> today, we're 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 floppies. >> hardworking, modest, easy-going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at lea...

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 we'll 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. >> that's okay. >> bill gates wasn't just one thing. he was a brilliant guy, had great parents, family values. but he was a killer. he basically was a ruth...

>> 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 we'll 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. >> that's okay. >> bill gates wasn't just one thing. he was a brilliant guy. had great parents. family values. ...