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Release Date:
20 June 1999 (USA)
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Good artists create... Great artists steal.
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History of Apple and Microsoft. full summary | add synopsis
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Apple
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Apple Computer
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College
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Bill Gates
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Computer
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Awards:
Nominated for 5 Primetime Emmys.
Another 1 win
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3 nominations
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(2 articles)
Filmmakers Lucas and Spielberg To Be Subject of TV Drama
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 21 April 2005)
The Apple Of Hanks' Eye
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 27 October 1998)
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 21 April 2005)
The Apple Of Hanks' Eye
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 27 October 1998)
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Fun movie missed most of the facts
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Noah Wyle | ... | Steve Jobs |
 | Joey Slotnick | ... | Steve Wozniak |
 | J.G. Hertzler | ... | Ridley Scott |
 | Anthony Michael Hall | ... | Bill Gates |
 | Wayne Pére | ... | Captain Crunch |
 | Sheila Shaw | ... | Mrs. Wozniak |
| Gema Zamprogna | ... | Arlene |
| John Di Maggio | ... | Steve Ballmer (as John DiMaggio) |
 | Josh Hopkins | ... | Paul Allen |
| Gailard Sartain | ... | Ed Roberts |
 | Allan Kolman | ... | Therapist |
| Richard Waltzer | ... | Homebrew Tech |
| Harris Mann | ... | Longhair #1 |
 | Clay Wilcox | ... | Longhair #2 |
 | Marcus Giamatti | ... | Dan Kottke |
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At the 1999 Macworld conference, shortly after the premiere of this TV movie, the audience was stunned to learn that the introductory comments were made not by Steve Jobs, but by Noah Wyle, reprising his role in this movie. The real Jobs emerged and traded jokes with Wyle.
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Factual errors: When Bill Gates and Paul Allen are working out of the motel they are staying at in Albuquerque, there is a sign in the window that reads "Microsoft". At that time (1975), Microsoft was spelled as "Micro-Soft".
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Bill Gates:
Honest to God, Ballmer. You have no culture.
Ballmer: Oh yeah, like you go around reading Plato! You're the only guy I know who can make furniture out of Playboys. Look, you got enough to make a chair. You don't have to worry about 'em moving around, 'cause they're all stuck together...
[laughs at his own joke]
Ballmer: They're all stuck together!
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Ballmer: Oh yeah, like you go around reading Plato! You're the only guy I know who can make furniture out of Playboys. Look, you got enough to make a chair. You don't have to worry about 'em moving around, 'cause they're all stuck together...
[laughs at his own joke]
Ballmer: They're all stuck together!
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs Saturday Night Fever (1977)
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Get Down Tonight
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This movie was fun. It caught the flavor of the two companies, Apple and Microsoft. Unfortunately, it missed many facts that would have enhanced the film further. For instance, IBM initially looked at Microsoft ONLY for programming languages. Digital Research was the preeminent operating system company. However, after Gary Kildall blew off two meetings with IBM, Gates saw an opening and took it. The QDOS MS then purchased and evolved into MS-DOS, was actually pirated code from Digital, specifically the code for CP/M-86. Had Gary Kildall made one call to the FBI and another to his lawyer, Gates would just be getting out of a halfway house about now. I learned most of this from a close friend, Gordon Eubanks. Gordon was Kildall's right-hand and head of his languages division after meeting Kildall at the US Navy Post-Graduate School in Monterey.
Had Kildall made those calls, how different the PC world would look... Microsoft would probably not exist, Digital Research would have licensed CP/M86 to IBM, allowing such things as 16MB of directly addressable memory in the very first PC's, something not available until many years later. We would be GEM based, not Windows based. WordStar, Ashton Tate and Lotus would still probably be the major application suppliers.
How much more ineresting would this movie had been with the facts, which are much better than anything a Hollywood writer could create.