Silicon Cowboys
They risked their future to create ours...
Launched in 1982 by three friends in a Houston diner, Compaq Computer set out to build a portable PC to take on IBM, the world’s most powerful tech company. Many had tried cloning the industry leader’s code, only to be trounced by IBM and its high-priced lawyers. Explore the remarkable David vs. Goliath story, and eventual demise, of Compaq, an unlikely upstart who altered the future of computing and helped shape the world as we know it today.
Runtime
1h 17m
Language
EN
Budget
Undisclosed
Revenue
Undisclosed
Cast
Faces behind the story
Rod Canion
Self
Bill Murto
Self
Jim Harris
Self
Bill Fargo
Self
Hugh Barnes
Self
Gary Stimac
Self
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