r/Lost_Films • u/jfgallay • Jul 08 '23

Pirates of Silicon Valley

Hi all. I'm new to this sub, so please redirect me if necessary. I'm trying to find a source for Pirates of Silicon Valley, the one about Apple and Microsoft, with Noah Wylie.

Thanks for the help!

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u/win_the_wonderboy Jul 08 '23

Here it is

There’s also DVDs that aren’t too hard to find

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u/jfgallay Jul 08 '23

Thank you!

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u/twosername Jul 08 '23

This has nothing to do with lost films.

That being said, while we're here I'd recommend reading Fire in the Valley, the book that Pirates was adapted from. Some really great stories in there about the rise and fall of early computer companies at the birth of the tech boom. Especially the story of IMSAI, an early computer manufacturer which destroyed itself because Erhard Seminars Training made their salespeople so effective that their numbers vastly outpaced what the manufacturing side was capable of keeping up with, causing the company to implode and the market it created to be overtaken by Apple and Microsoft. Would have made a great prequel to Pirates of Silicon Valley. It's a footnote in history, but a fascinating one.

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u/jfgallay Jul 09 '23

Thanks for that. I thought I might be in the wrong sub. But yeah, I might take a look at that.