Watch: Silicon Cowboys 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know..
Plot: 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.
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I remember when……
I think you probably needed to be around during the time that this documentary is set in to fully appreciate how great this show is. If you weren’t, it is still a fascinating look into the past to help the younger folks hopefully appreciate much of what they have today, and just take for granted.I was a young adult when all of this was taking place, and had the privilege of owning one of the Compaq “portable” computers. I’ll always remember a lady at the airport asking me why I was carrying my sewing machine on my trip (since most people had never seen a portable computer at the time) she had no idea it was actually a computer.
I couldn’t stop watching this show, as it took me back down memory lane and made me remember how much fun those golden days were of getting a PC that had a ‘turbo’ button on them. Great job on this documentary. Well worth the time to watch it!
Light, enjoyable look at a surprising breakout business
Entertaining, intelligent 77 minute documentary about the surprising rise of Compaq computer – the almost off-handed 1981 brainchild of three young Houston friends – to become a serious rival to the seemingly untouchable giant, starchy, old-school IBM.If there’s not a lot of emotion or deeper levels to the doc, there’s certainly a likable humanity to these not-so-corporate types who succeeded while creating the kind of relaxed, egalitarian company culture we now see as commonplace in the computer world, but at the time went against everything about how you were supposed to run a ‘serious’ company.
Maybe not a film to run out and buy, or one that will call out for multiple viewings. But I was never bored, and I was happy to get a look at this recent piece of modern business and cultural history.
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Runtime 1 hr 17 min (77 min)
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Genre Documentary, History
Director Jason Cohen
Writer Jason Cohen, Steven Leckart
Actors Rod Canion, Jim Harris, Bill Murto
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 1 nomination
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