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> It is why the show is so much better as both computing history and drama than all those films about Apple or Steve Jobs [...]

Loved Halt & Catch Fire

Pirates of Silicon Valley was pretty great, no? Idk about its accuracy though.

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Pirates was so great, entertaining, and generally informative if you knew nothing about the subject even though it wasn't totally accurate. But at the time, what other comedy, drama would you find about the history of the personal computer? There was literally nothing else like it out there and very little else like it since.

I was a teen who knew little about the history about personal computers when I first saw it. I had just gotten my Windows 95 machine, my first computer and was stoked cause I paid for a third of it with my own money from working odd jobs. My mom paid the rest.

Anyways, I found the subject matter engaging so I have a fond place for that movie.

The funniest thing about "Pirates" to me is how it was made at a time when it seemed Microsoft had "beaten" Apple and it showed Jobs learning to accept his defeat.

To be fair... Bill has won in the end by most metrics...

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