Pirates of Silicon Valley
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Feel better?
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Now, Steve, tell the others
what you're feeling.

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Like...
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- Like it's gone.
- What is?

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The anger.
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Like the anger's gone.
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It's gone.
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Back then, our big thrill was going to
this thing they called the Homebrew Club.

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It was where guys
spent all their spare time...

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... trying to get access to computers
owned by the local corporations.

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And people would go there
and show the stuff they just built.

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Except most of it
didn't really work all that well.

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- Read in the Popular Electronics
issue about a year ago...

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...about the new Altair 8800.
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I was nervous that day we walked
in with my homemade computer...

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... but I got a charge out of it.
All those guys...

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... coming over and wanting
to talk to me.

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The schematics we have...
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- What is this thing?
- Check it out.

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The first computer
you're ever gonna see.

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What's the screen for?
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I was never good at talking
to people in those days...

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... but Steve, he was amazing.
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Alexander Graham Bell when he heard his
first ring, that's as revolutionary as this is.

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He's talking about the Altair? I never
had a problem till I tried to use it.

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All of a sudden we found out what
we wanted to do with our lives.

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- It was all we ever wanted.
- To 30.

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Here is the first personal computer
that you're gonna wanna buy.


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