9/22
I found it fairly interesting that when the computer was just being invented, the motivation behind improving the computer was the same as today. People wanted to hack away and make something useful out of some currently useless.
Even from the beginning of the computer, there was "open source" motivations and monetization motivation. Both really driving the progress of the computer very fast.
I thought it was pretty funny how the culture of those who programmed in the first days of computer, sounds a lot like the culture of the hobbyist programmers in our current days.
9/24
The amount of risk each of these big players took are huge. They had chances which most wouldn't have, but still they had to take them (or lose them).
I found the amount of work each of these big leaders needed to do and the sacrifice needed was insane. Like Bill Gates working all night fixing the program on the nights before one of his big presentation. I thought that sacrifice was funny that he didn't shower. Nothing was just given to any of the successful in this pc history.
Another big piece of this puzzle for success, was all the connections each of them had. The connections with their colleagues in their own company, and the connections with other companies, like IBM and Microsoft.
9/29
copycatting was huge! I never realized how much was taken from Xerox.
Effective communication is huge. Seeing the fail of Xerox was all about the tech guys not being able to convince the business guys of the huge chance they had.
An interesting point is the amount of predictions like from Oracle actually come true. It seems at the time it might have sounded a like he was telling a science fiction story. I think that applies today as well, and we should be ready to peruse those future looking ideas.
10/01
quiz day
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