Triumph of the Nerds Part II

We are revisiting the series triumph of the nerds obviously this time watching the second part and I just have to start saying the same thing I said when we saw for the first time the triumph of the nerd series with the first part, nerds rule and I love that fact that a lot of their success wasn’t completely out of wanting to get rich but doing what they were good at and what the loved. Saying that I liked how this part focused mainly on reverse engineering and how people were able to replicate the ROM BIOS but the part that was more interesting in my opinion was the one that talked about Compaq and how they did this same thing but to be able to reverse engineer the ROM BIOS one person should look and see everything it could do and how it did it and write what requirements it had but he couldn’t work on it because his mind was “dirty” so the other guys from the team needed to work on creating a system that could do exactly everything described by their partner without actually knowing how it worked and at the end of the day they managed to be able to do it so they had a computer that did everything and IBM did but without it being IBM.

That was way too impressive to accomplish, but what I find most interesting, besides that people wanted a computer that did what IBM, is that they wanted a portable computer and how did they fixed it? By just adding a handle to the computer Compaq may be just another good computer seller this days but god, they were revolutionary by the time they started in the computer business and I think that’s the thing I get the most out of this part of the video, try to create something people would want but don’t try to reinvent the wheel, just adapt it and use it in a better way.