If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by devmunchies on Monday November 19, 2018 @05:20PM (#18490240)

ditto. Its starts off with a young ex-IBM executive trying to build the first IBM compatible machine and everything that goes with launching the new product. Later seasons go into things like server farms, early gaming, and social networking.

really underrated show.

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by ticmasta on Monday November 19, 2018 @07:14PM (#18490878)

I really like the historical/tech story lines but the soap-opera interpersonal relationships wrecked it for me. The whole "broken imperfection" thing often goes to far and really detracts from the story.

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by marshray on Monday November 19, 2018 @09:23PM (#18491408)

You might like this documentary on the origins of National Semiconductor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbRZGDV-ws

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by jjeaff on Monday November 19, 2018 @10:06PM (#18491548)

I agree. It feels like it's trying to be a film festival movie about a tumultuous relationship and "complicated" hero/heroine that just has the beginning of the personal computer age as a backdrop.

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by orarbel1 on Monday November 19, 2018 @09:21PM (#18491398)

Based on the founding of Compaq

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by marshray on Monday November 19, 2018 @09:27PM (#18491425)

It also draws from the book 'Soul of a New Machine' about Data General's a few years before Compaq.

The 'adventure addiction' scene, for example.

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