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Silicon Cowboys

They risked their future to create ours...

6.8 average rating
6.8
English / 77 MIN. / 2016

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Rod CanionBill MurtoJim HarrisBill FargoHugh BarnesGary StimacSteve FlanniganMike SwavelyKaren WalkerBen RosenRoss CooleySteve UllrichCharles Lee

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