Tonight (October 6) at 8pm and 10pm ET/PT, TNT will pay tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away yesterday at the age of 56, with a presentation of the 1999 original movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. The film, which received five Emmy nominations, follows the race between technology rivals Apple Computer and Microsoft during the early days of the personal computing revolution. Noah Wyle plays Steve Jobs, with Anthony Michael Hall as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Joey Slotnick as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
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