:48:00
You see, by that time,
Bill had already figured out...
:48:03
... that we gotta go right into the belly of the
beast. The scariest beast of them all, IBM.
:48:07
IBM. And back then, man, they were like
Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan...
:48:13
... and Vlad the Impaler all rolled into one.
:48:17
But what we were gonna do was,
we were gonna make them love us.
:48:21
Gentlemen, how are you? Nice tie.
:48:23
- Thanks.
- We're over here.
:48:26
Our shirts are as white as theirs.
:48:31
We think we have what you need.
:48:34
That's a start.
:48:36
Now, we know that IBM has set up
this place to compete head-on with Apple...
:48:42
...and you're gearing up to come out with a
personal computer that will wipe them out.
:48:47
So we can get you an operating system.
:48:49
What kind of operating system?
:48:52
It's called...
:48:54
...DOS.
:48:57
This is amazing.
Not just amazing, it's historic.
:49:02
It should be taught
in all the history books.
:49:04
I mean, hung and framed
in the National Gallery or something.
:49:08
Because this is the instant of creation...
:49:10
...of one of the greatest fortunes
in the history of the world.
:49:14
I mean, Bill Gates is the richest guy in the
world because of what started in this room.
:49:20
You wanna know what else?
:49:21
It wasn't exactly smoke and mirrors,
but we didn't have anything.
:49:25
I mean, not a damn thing.
:49:30
Here we were, this two-bit little outfit...
:49:32
...telling IBM we had the answer
to their problems.
:49:36
DOS? The Disk Operating System?
:49:39
To make all those zillion
IBM computers compute?
:49:43
We didn't even remotely own
anything like what Bill was selling them.
:49:47
Nada, zip.
:49:55
Of course, we don't just
wanna sell it to you outright.
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We wanna be able to license it to you.