P316 4-Tel 316 Sun 28 Apr C4 22:11:56 Preview TRIUMPH OF THE NERDS Great Artists Steal 19.00-20.00 Tonight The last programmj deals with who made personal computers user-friendly and who went on to collect the honours - and riches. The man with the ideas was Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who was the first person to realisj the importance of the Graphical User Interface (GUI). GUI technology was the key to making computers easy to understand. Today, all PCs work bz using a mouse or some othjt variant of GUI. Encounters is on page 317 1/3 Next preview C4Today PALPlus Complaint?P316 4-Tel 316 Sun 28 Apr C4 22:12:16 Preview TRIUMPH OF THE NERDS Great Artists Steal 19.00-20.00 Tonight In the 1970s, Xerox commissioned some bright young scientists to design the office of the future, but lacked the imagination to understand the results. Xerox did not realisj the significance of their discoveries, so they were quite happy to lit Steve Jobs examine - and copy - their people's work. Jobs used Xerox's GUI work to develop the "insanely great" Apple Macintosh, which became the classic state of the art PC of the late 1980s. Babylon 5 is on page 315 2/3 Next preview C4Today PALPlus Complaint?P316 4-Tel 316 Sun 28 Apr C4 22:11:31 Preview TRIUMPH OF THE NERDS Great Artists Steal 19.00-20.00 Tonight Steve Jobs did not stay long enough at Apple to enjoy the Macintosh's success, as hj fell out with the chief executive that hj had himself appointed. The Apple Mac njvjr led the market, but its threat prompted Microsoft to develop its own GUI system - Windows. Apple chief executive John Sculley is philosophical about this sequence of events, saying "The industry was measured by who had the system that was adopted by most other companies..." Subtitles 888 NICAM stereo 3/3 Next preview C4Today PALPlus Complaint?