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	Salon Technology \| The Silicon Valley myth with a life of its own (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There's a scene in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" in which a cigarette-smoking Hewlett-Packard executive turns up his nose at Steve Wozniak (as played by Joey Slotnick) and his shabby-looking little Apple I prototype.
		The executives at HP had their heads screwed on OK. It isn't that the portrayal is untrue -- HP did blow it -- but, like most historical dramas, "Pirates of Silicon Valley" is a movie concerned more with vivid, colorful myths than with the subtleties of truth.
		Silicon Valley's power cults At Intel, Oracle and Apple, you can't escape the grip of a fearless leader -- or a paranoid one.
	www.salon.com /tech/feature/1999/06/17/valley_myths/index.html (1643 words)

	Muddy Waters (review of "Pirates of Silicon Valley") \| Linux Journal
		"Pirates of Silicon Valley", which talks about the rise of young Bill Gates of Microsoft and Stephen Jobs of Apple, reminded me of movies in the exposé genre, movies which seem to say, "look how outrageous these famous people are!" Flashy, sensational portrayals are the norm here, making the celebrities shown seem completely unbalanced.
		The story itself was based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swain, which consisted of interviews with "the people who made PCs a reality".
		For the most part, the movie was a retelling or narration of the rise and rise of Silicon Valley's most famous sons, Gates and Jobs.
	www.linuxjournal.com /article/5056 (499 words)

	DtheRH \| Pirates of Silicon Valley
		The rise, and fall, and rise, and fall, and rise again of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is a fascinating tale, filled with plenty of brilliance, and skullduggery.
		Pirates of Silicon Valley attempts to bring that to the big screen and is marginally succesful, painting neither man in a particularly beautiful nor horrible light.
		PoSV (as I'm now going to call it) is of obvious interest to me, a recent immigrant to the region.
	www.geocities.com /saakfbi/piratessiliconvalley.html (451 words)

	MacSlash \| Pirates of Silicon Valley Coming To DVD
		This is Pirates of Silicon Valley and it's launching on Amazon at the end of August.
		"Pirates" was made at a time when Microsoft was at it's absolute peak, right before all their anti-trust problems started.
		"Pirates of Silicon Valley" seemed to me to be a bizarro version of "Triumph of the Nerds." The characters were all there, but they didn't look quite right.
	macslash.org /article.pl?sid=05/08/16/0958249 (831 words)

	Pirates of Silicon Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) is an unauthorized made-for-television docudrama written and directed by Martyn Burke.
		Gates, Jobs, and Wozniak would drop out of college (Jobs was actually a Reed College student for a short term but this is not documented in the film; Wozniak would later return to UC Berkeley) in order to take part in the growing personal computer revolution.
		Pirates of Silicon Valley was nominated for five Emmy Awards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley (850 words)

	CNN - 'Pirates of Silicon Valley': Browsing the recent past - June 18, 1999
		CNN - 'Pirates of Silicon Valley': Browsing the recent past - June 18, 1999
		'Pirates of Silicon Valley': Browsing the recent past
		"Pirates of Silicon Valley," a made-for-TV film about the Microsoft chairman and the Apple Computer co-founder, describes their rise to power and rivalries amid wealth and celebrity.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/TV/9906/18/pirates.silicon/index.html (578 words)

	Amazon.com: Pirates of Silicon Valley: Video: Anthony Michael Hall,Noah Wyle,Joey Slotnick,John Di Maggio,Josh ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But Pirates of Silicon Valley seemingly can't decide whether it wants to be a serious-minded history of these key figures in the personal computer revolution or a trashy wallow in the more ignoble foibles of its principals.
		Each time I re-view my copy of PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY, I'm left with an intense curiosity about how true to reality it seemed, and about Gates, Jobs, Wozniac, and the other characters "takes" of this rendition of who they were and what they did.
		Thank you Bill, Steve, the makers of THE PIRATES OF SILICONE VALLEY (see the credits on this page), and the authors (Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine) of the novel, FIRE IN THE VALLEY, upon which this movie (made for cable, TNT, in 1999) was based.
	www.amazon.com /Pirates-Silicon-Valley-Anthony-Michael/dp/0780627717 (3042 words)

	YouTube - PoSV - "Are you a virgin?" (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Another famous scene from the movie Pira Another famous scene from the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs barges into a interview between then Apple CEO Mike Markkula and a prospective Apple Employee, Mr.
		Pirates of Silicon Valley is a made-for-TV motion picture made in 1998 telling the story of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs rise to fame in Microsoft and Apple, respectively.
		Pirates of Silicon Valley Apple Steve Jobs Virgin Mike Markkula job interview (more) (less)
	www.youtube.com.cob-web.org:8888 /watch?v=fwYy8R87JMA (271 words)

	Pirates of Silicon Valley Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		At times, it seems like a stereoscopic biopic, with Gates crony Steve Ballmer (John DiMaggio) and Wozniak (Joey Slotnick) alternating voiceover narratives of their respective "early days" in Cambridge and Berkeley.
		And that, really, is when Pirates of Silicon Valley is most interesting, albeit sometimes confusing.
		This film was based on the 1984 book Fire in the Valley by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, which chronicled the hits and misses and happy accidents that led to the development of the computer that has become such an integral part of our culture.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=127572 (541 words)

	Salon Technology \| The great Silicon Valley soap opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The much-trumpeted, fictionalized account of the rise (and fall, and rise again) of Microsoft and Apple Computer, airing Sunday on TNT, presents both the turtlenecked CEO and Mr.
		"Pirates of Silicon Valley" starts off in the late 1960s, when Gates, played by Anthony Michael Hall (a veteran nerd actor and an inspired casting choice), and Jobs, played by "ER" veteran Noah Wyle (who bears a striking resemblance to Jobs), are toiling away at their respective colleges.
		The movie tracks their parallel growth and growing enmity -- from garage to glass-covered campus, in the case of Apple, and from a grungy hotel room to immense wealth, in the case of Microsoft -- as Jobs builds his revolutionary empire and Gates, in turn, pilfers his genius.
	www.salon.com /tech/review/1999/06/17/pirates/index.html (581 words)

	MacKiDo/History/PiratesOfSiliconValley (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I watched the TV show on the history of microcomputers called, "The Pirates of Silicon Valley".
		As usual, Hollywood (or where ever it was produced) took lots of liberties with dialog, and how things happened to try to tell a story and make it more entertaining.
		If you have no interest in the historical accuracy, then it was probably fun and entertaining -- but even then it seemed a little too "jumpy" to me, having little real flow.
	www.mackido.com.cob-web.org:8888 /History/PiratesOfSiliconValley.html (1590 words)

	The Pirates of Silicon Valley - Christian Business
		The Pirates of Silicon Valley is, at its essence, about entrepreneurship.
		Working out of their garage and scrapping together some money for lunch everyday, two Steves (Steve Jobs, played by ER’s Noah Wyle, and Steve Wozniak) begin work on an invention that most people and bankers, as the movie shifts from one ironic scene to the next, eschew.
		The Pirates of Silicon Valley, however, provides a nice modern-day illustration of that truth.
	www.businessreform.com /article.php?articleID=10232 (1008 words)

	pseudopodium: Pirates of Silicon Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Reporting for duty are Martin Mull as Ted, Ernest Borgnine as Rupert, and lovable "Jane-Bo" courtesy of Pixar Animation Studios.
		"Pirates of Silicon Valley" kept reminding me of another long poem by Wilmot -- not his best, but memorable -- to which I once referred in a discussion of nonverbal online communication:
		When poet John Wilmot whipped off that tribute to Charles II's tiny brain and huge penis which ended: "I hate all kings and the thrones that they sit on / From the hector of France to the culley of Britain," he was banished from court.
	www.pseudopodium.org /search.cgi?Pirates+of+Silicon+Valley (169 words)

	PC Today Article - Pirates Of Silicon Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		“Pirates Of Silicon Valley” is director Martyn Burke’s adaptation of Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine’s book, “Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer.” “ER”’s Noah Wyle occasionally goes overboard playing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, sometimes seeming to channel a cleaner, more messianic Jim Morrison.
		To judge by the “Pirates” part of the title, and the mounting monopoly litigation facing Microsoft during filming and in the years since, an average viewer might expect this dramatization to be a morality play with Bill Gates in Satan’s seat.
		Still, there’s enough humor to counterpoint the drama, and the script supplies a heaping helping of anecdotes that have become Silicon Valley legends (see Woz’s site at www.woz.org for expositions and a few corrections).
	www.pctoday.com /Editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2006/t0403/39t03/39t03.asp&articleid=29448&guid=&searchtype=0&WordList=&bJumpTo=True (567 words)

	Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The title is a pun referencing both the buccaneering style Jobs celebrated at Apple, and the idea of unethically 'pirating' the computer developments of other engineers.
		The film's main point is that both Apple and Microsoft gained their key functionality, the image-based screen display of a computer system (GUI) and the 'mouse' pointing device, by 'pirating' the ideas.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) (TV)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0168122 (546 words)

	'Pirates of Silicon Valley' walks plank \| Tech News on ZDNet
		The idea resulted in "Pirates of Silicon Valley," a TV movie that premieres on TNT Sunday, tracing the creation of Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT) and the rivalry between Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and his rival and counterpart at Microsoft, Gates.
		Overall, "Pirates" is content to take the commonly known facts about Gates, Jobs and the rest, and throw in a few anecdotes here and there for color.
		Such tidbits include Gates' arrest for speeding, back when he was just some punk kid; the incident in which he crashed a steam shovel into Paul Allen's new car; the topic of Jobs' daughter, whose existence he denied for years; and Jobs' abusive and tyrannical management style.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-514943.html (744 words)

	The Mac Observer--Pirates Of Silicon Valley Has Surprise Debut On TNT
		TNT may be a bit confused, but we have had several readers tell us that The Pirates Of Silicon Valley debuted last night, despite the fact the debut had been pushed back to June 20th.
		For those who may not be aware, Pirate of Silicon Valley is a movie about the goings on in Silicon Valley with Anthony Michael Hall as BIll Gates and Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs.
		Last night (actually early this morning) I was channel surfing when I came upon "Pirates of Silicon Valley" showing on TNT.
	www.macobserver.com /news/99/may/990524/piratessiliconvalley.html (520 words)

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	Amazon.ca: Pirates of Silicon Valley: DVD: Martyn Burke,Wayne Pere,Allan Royal,Noah Wyle,Anthony Michael Hall,Gema ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		And unlike a lot of true-life TV movies, Pirates of Silicon Valley doesn't telescope its complicated plot into a series of irritatingly unconnected vignettes.
		The story is an interesting one, and despite the generally poor script and often seemingly needless inaccuracies, "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" is a glimpse behind the scenes at the events and personalities that built the computer industry as we know it today.
		Showing the big pirates like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs how to build their empires by stealing other's ideas, like the "Mouse" which in fact played a critical factor in this PC revolution.
	www.amazon.ca /Pirates-Silicon-Valley-Martyn-Burke/dp/B0009NSCS0 (2626 words)

	Pirates Of Silicon Valley - MonroeWorld.com Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I have got hold of Pirates Of Silicon Valley.
		I think you should watch it, enjoy it and if you find it interesting as I am sure you will you can then follow it up by reasearching what is presented, again it's not a biography but definitely presents a the PC history in an interesting manner.
		"Pirates" was excellent for all the reasons OldSchool mentions and definitely worth a view, but it is, after all, Hollywood.
	www.monroeworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=2625 (372 words)

	Triumph of the Nerds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1998, two years prior to the dotcom-bubble burst of Silicon Valley, Cringely hosted a sequel, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet.
		It was also broadcast on PBS and documented the development of the ARPANET, the Internet, the World Wide Web and the Dot-com boom of the mid and late 1990s.
		In Search of the Valley A 2006 documentary on Silicon Valley featuring many of those also featured in "Triumph of the Nerds"'
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds (245 words)

	Gearcritech » Pirates of Silicon Valley DVD
		The event-packed saga of the quirky visionaries who jump-started the future unfolds with exhilarating, cutting-edge style in Pirates of Silicon Valley.
		The Pirates hit the retail super-highway on 8/30/05 with a MSRP of $19.98.
		Related: - Pirates of Silicon Valley - Silicon Knights 3rd Party???!!!?!
	gearcritech.com /index.php/2005/05/15/pirates-of-silicon-valley-dvd.php (237 words)

	Review: The Pirates of Silicon Valley (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The commercials for the new TNT telemovie "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" mostly portray Bill Gates yelling or looking obsessive, and Steve Jobs smiling beatifically, so I tuned in expecting another piece of anti-Microsoft propaganda.
		He says he is against pirating stuff, but his company was made out of lying, stealing,etc...
		"Pirates" is that the author is extremely anal retentaive.
	leisuresuit.net.cob-web.org:8888 /Webzine/articles/silicon_valley.shtml (4937 words)

	MethodShop: Pirates of Silicon Valley DVD Release
		On August 30th, Amazon.com released "The Pirates of Silicon Valley," starring Anthony Michael Hall and Noah Wyle.
		The DVD version of The Pirates of Silicon Valley is currently only availbile for residents in the US and Canada.
		One last note, the original TNT web site for this 1999 film is still online if you would like to check it out.
	www.methodshop.com /2005/09/pirates-of-silicon-valley-dvd-release.shtml (884 words)

	Pirates Of Silicon Valley TNT Original Motion Picture Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Pirates Of Silicon Valley TNT Original Motion Picture Review
		"Pirates of Silicon Valley" chronicles the passion, luck, and genius of two
		screen by Writer and Director Martyn Burke, "Pirates of Silicon Valley" is an
	members.aol.com /RiveraM5/pirates_of_silicon_valley.html (1112 words)

	Reviewed: Pirates of Silicon Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As a sort of amateur historian of the early days of the personal computing revolution, I was looking forward to TNT's "Pirates of Silicon Valley," which debuted last weekend.
		But unlike many critics, including such industry luminaries as John Dvorak and New York Times' Stephen Manes, who complain of historical inaccuracies and literary license, I found the two-hour treatment to be reasonably accurate given the limitations of time and the medium.
		The biggest problem with "Pirates of Silicon Valley" is its fixation on Steve Jobs, who is both praised and demonized in this TV movie.
	www.windowsitpro.com /Article/ArticleID/18760/18760.html (882 words)

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