Questions on Triumph of the Nerds Part 2 Video

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Questions on Triumph of the Nerds Video - Part 2 INSTRUCTIONS: Download this document. After watching the video, answer the questions. 1. When did IBM decide they wanted a piece of the PC business? In 1980. 2. How did IBM change their usual approach in creating their PC? What is 'open architecture?' To save time, instead of building a computer from scratch, they would buy components off the shelf and assemble them. 3. What are the two essential bits of software needed for any computer to work at all? Which of those made Bill Gates rich? The first essential bit is a computer language, and the second is an operating system. It was an operating system that made Bill Gates the richest man in the world. 4. Who was Gary Kildall? How did he 'drop the ball' with regards to IBM? Gary Kildall was a computer Ph.D., and ran the company “Intergalactic Digital Research”. He invented the first operating system for the PC, called CP/M. 5. How did Bill Gates' approach to IBM differ with Digital Research's? Digital Research (Gary and Dorothy Kildall) sent away IBM when they came to their headquarters in Pacific Grove California. IBM, unimpressed by this, went back to Microsoft. Bill Gates on the other hand, saw a path to success. 6. How did Microsoft acquire an operating system and from whom?

Microsoft acquired an operating system from Tim Patterson, who ran a local company in Seattle called Seattle Computer Products. 7. Was the IBM PC much better than what came before? What 'killer app' created immense demand for the IBM PC? The IBM PC wasn’t much better than what came before. The killer app that sustained the IBM PC was Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet application based on Visicalc. 8. What percentage of the PC market did IBM have after a few years? What would other manufacturers have to do to be successful? IBM had 50% market share. To be successful, other manufacturers would have to build computers exactly like the IBM PC, to essentially clone it. 9. What is a PC 'clone?' What is reverse engineering and how does it work? A PC clone is a copy of another PC. Reverse engineering is figuring out how something works after it has already been created. This is usually for the purpose of creating something that works the same way or similar to the thing you’re trying to reverse engineer. 10. How did Intel benefit from the growth of the PC industry? Intel, being the maker of the microprocessor chips used by PCs, was selling them like hotcakes due to the growth of the PC industry. They did this while making them smaller, quicker, and cheaper. 11. "Where did every two-bit clone-maker buy his operating system? Microsoft.

12. What caused the ten-year IBM/Microsoft partnership to end? Why did IBM turn "into an also- ran in the PC business?" IBM wanted essentially control over Windows and got too greedy. Microsoft walked away from negotiations with IBM and ended their ten-year partnership. IBM turned into an “also-ran” in the PC business because they lost they lost most of their market value to Intel and Microsoft, and many of its building were abandoned. 13. Do you agree with Larry Ellison, who said "I think IBM made the single worst mistake in the history of enterprise on earth?" Explain. I agree with Larry Ellison. They truly lost out on a gigantic chance to be a tech giant but didn’t make good business decisions. 14. What information did you find most interesting about this video? Why? IBM’s terrible business decisions had to have been the most interesting part of this video for me. It was the most interesting because seeing such a giant face of technology fall so far so fast must have been crazy to witness. And it’s crazy how just a few different moves could’ve made IBM so much bigger.

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