Flashback: 1999 - part 2

Pirates of Sillicon Valley was released in 1999 and it describes how Apple and Microsoft were funded and how this relationship caused Microsoft to supplant IBM in the 1990s. The film ends with Jobs returning to Apple and cutting a deal with Bill Gates, who became the proverbial Big Brother depicted on Apple's iconic Macintosh advertisement in 1984.

This is a great film I managed to watch on VHS as it was released on Blockbuster. The story kind of stuck in my head and I eventually copied the whole thing into a new tape. I would see that film again a few times. It introduced me to the Xerox Alto, the Apple Lisa and some of Microsoft's and IBM's history as well. It also led me into learning about Next and some other stories concerning Apple and Steve Jobs.

More or less at that time I found out about Macintosh emulators and started playing with them. Fusion, Basilisk II and vMac would be part of my collection of software. I even developed a website in Portuguese with tutorials and apps to get Basilisk II running on Windows.

By that time, I got a Performa at home, but the monitor would get blurry after a few minutes due to some hardware problem. As I didn't have a secondary monitor and the corresponding adaptor (nor money to afford one), I stuck to the emulators to use Mac OS.

Around this time I've learned HTML and a bit of JavaScript by myself.



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