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Tron? Wall Street? :)
But in some greater seriousness - I think we're only just getting to the 80s as a decade for stories to be told about, which can only really come with distance. That said, there is some stuff out there.
Note that H&CF isn't the story of Jobs & Wozniak, though the parallels are there. The first stop would be this article about the Compaq guys which is almost exactly what is taking place in H&CF. Here is the book written by one of the guys behind Compaq referenced in the article.
In terms of movies, Triumph of the Nerds is a documentary from the 90s about this period, and Pirates of Silicon Valley is the dramatisation of the same period.
Hacking: Kevin Mitnick's story might be of interest - see the wikipedia page for references.
Folklore.org is a good resource for stories from the early Apple days that you're interested in.
Check out Silicon Cowboys on Netflix.
And for an even more thorough account, an awesome book called Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing written by the Co-founder/CEO of Compaq.
I don't think a lot of people realize how much of a role Compaq played in standardizing hardware by being so hellbent on backwards compatibility as a major strategy.