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"There was a crowd around it - almost like when you go to the Louvre and see the Mona Lisa, there's a crowd around that," Burke says. "I was also fascinated that it [the personal computer] happened in our lifetime. It was a museum piece and it was something that changed the world.</p><p>" The former journalist and native Canadian was captivated by computers and with the people who created them, notably Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computers, and Bill Gates, chairman and chief executive officer of software giant Microsoft. His interest led him to Turner Broadcasting's TNT, which in turn wanted him to make a film about the history of PCs. He realized pretty quickly, though, that a film only about computers might be rather bland. What fascinated him most was the Jobs-Gates connection and their personalities. The result of Burke's fascination is tonight's TNT film, "Pirates of Silicon Valley," a two-hour peek into the lives of Gates and Jobs and their respective partners, Steve Wozniak and Paul Allen. "ER" star Noah Wyle portrays Jobs, an adopted child who was raised in what was to become California's famed Silicon Valley. Jobs met Wozniak (Joey Slotnick) while working at Hewlett Packard and together they created the Apple I computer in Jobs' parents' garage. Jobs became a multi-millionaire by the time he was 30. Anthony Michael Hall ("The Breakfast Club," "Saturday Night Live," "Six Degrees of Separation") plays Gates, who with Paul Allen (Josh Hopkins) created the programming language for the earliest PCs. In 1975, he dropped out of Harvard to form Microsoft with Allen. According to Burke, none of the principal people portrayed in the film was contacted. The director simply didn't want them to be involved. "I did not want to do the authorized versions of either Gates or Jobs," he explains. "The actors asked me if they could go meet the people portrayed. I did not want the actors to come back to the set and say, 'They said it happened this way.</p><p>' " That's not to say Burke & Co. didn't heavily research the project. They dug through reams of documents dating back to the '70s, read all available books about those involved with PCs, and scanned miles of film and video footage of Gates and Jobs in action. "We discovered a lot of material out of articles, books and obscure sources," Burke says. 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