SideQuest is my Nebula exclusive series, which you can get with the CuriosityStream bundle (26% off): https://curiositystream.com/lowspecgamer

SideQuest video: https://nebula.app/videos/lowspecgamer-bill-gates-biggest-business-mistake-ever

For years, an ongoing battle is fought by a group of Engineers to make a product that their industry thought impossible: a processor so cheap it could change the world.

But to make it happen they would have to struggle in ways they could have never expected.

0:00 Intro
0:40 An unlikely hero
2:42 Motorola
6:11 Leaving Motorola
7:49 MOS semiconductors
10:07 WesCon
13:12 Trial by Lawsuit
15:14 Commodore
17:29 The Personal Computer
20:00 Apple Computers
23:09 RadioShack
25:26 The Revolution of 1977

Video en Español: https://youtu.be/0LqS4kArQ-k

Credits

Research and Writing: LowSpecAlex, F4mi
Voice over: LowSpecAlex
Editing: Henrique von Buren, LowSpecAlex
3D animation: Windy
Art: Maiku no Koe
Spanish Translation, Audio editing and QA: Henrique von Buren
Camera work: Victor Candela, LowSpecAlex 
Thumbnail design: Maiku no Koe

Social media: 

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https://www.instagram.com/thelowspecgamer

Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Stock Footage from Getty

This Smash Bros Effect used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEEb2ellrkU

Sources:
Peddle, Chuck oral history by Computer history Museum: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102739939
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHF9lMseP8
Commodore: A Company on the Edge by Brian Bagnall