Pirates of Silicon Valley Page #4

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Hey. man. you are putting poison

into your body.

Hey. hey. come on.

Give me those.

- That's french fries, man.

- That's what I mean.

French fries, all-American food.

Come on.

I can't eat like you do.

Eating fruit all the time.

That's weird.

It's not weird. It's pure.

Makes the soul pure.

Oh. wait. wait. You gotta listen to this.

I got a great one today.

Did you hear about the drunk who

came staggering out of the subway...

...and said, "Man, I got lost

in some guy's basement.

You should've seen the set

of trains he had"?

the Bay Area Dial-a-Joke Line,

making your day a barre! of laughs.

I got a new book of Polish jokes.

Man. it'll keep me going for years.

- Why?

- Why?

It makes people laugh.

I got people phoning in every day

just to hear my latest joke.

It makes their day better.

Are you sure this thing's

gonna work?

- If it doesn't catch fire.

- Don't even joke.

I like jokes.

Jokes make me feel good.

You know. I hired

a private detective today.

I wanna find my mother.

My real mother.

You never talk about that stuff

with me.

That part about being adopted and all.

Guy says he can probably find her.

Why do you always get freaked

out when Arlene asks about it?

Arlene? Arlene's got her own problems.

My parents don't want her in the house.

She phones me a million times a day.

At least I'm working on my stuff.

Feel better?

Now. Steve. tell the others

what you're feeling.

Like...

- Like it's gone.

- What is?

The anger.

Like the anger's gone.

It's gone.

Back then, our big thrill was going to

this thing they called the Homebrew Club.

It was where guys

spent all their spare time...

...trying to get access to computers

owned by the local corporations.

And people would go there

and show the stuff they just built.

Except most of it

didn't really work all that well.

--read in the Popular Electronics

issue about a year ago...

...about the new Altair 8800.

I was nervous that day we walked

in with my homemade computer...

...but I got a charge out of it.

All those guys...

---coming over and wanting

to talk to me.

The schematics we have--

- What is this thing?

- Check it out.

The first computer

you're ever gonna see.

What's the screen for?

I was never good at talking

to people in those days...

...but Steve. he was amazing.

Alexander Graham Bell when he heard his

first ring. that's as revolutionary as this is.

He's talking about the Altair? I never

had a problem till I tried to use it.

All of a sudden we found out what

we wanted to do with our lives.

- It was all we ever wanted.

- To 30.

Here is the first personal computer

that you're gonna wanna buy.

Man. 50! We sold 50.

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