Silicon Cowboys

Genre: Documentary

Company: Fancy Film Post Services

Ratings: 6.775

TMDB ID: 381058

Overview: 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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Cast

Rod Canion

Bill Murto

Jim Harris

Bill Fargo

Hugh Barnes

Gary Stimac

Steve Flannigan

Mike Swavely

Karen Walker

Ben Rosen

Ross Cooley

Steve Ullrich

Charles Lee

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