A documentary on the early history of Compaq is coming Sept. 16th \ VOGONS

A documentary on the early history of Compaq is coming Sept. 16th

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First post, by jheronimus

Posted on 2016-08-30, 17:45

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Thought I should share with you a trailer for Silicon Cowboys.

Guess the makers of this documentary might have been inspired by success of the "Halt and Catch Fire" series. Pretty excited about this — I'm not well-versed in the 80s PC history, which is why I'd like to know how come IBM didn't just sue the compatibles into the ground. These days people often state that PC was an open platform from the start, implying that anyone was welcome to make a clone, and IBM almost encouraged this. But it can't be that simple.

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Reply 1 of 3, by 386_junkie

Posted on 2016-08-31, 04:13

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Wow!.... большое спасибо.

This looks tremendous, thanks for posting.

I too will be looking forward to this. I'm a massive Compaq Junkie and have been spending what little time I can afford this hobby recently on the Systempro and Deskpro's. Will be very good to see a proper documentary about what I've only read bits about.

Regards to IBM not suing everyone, I guess there may have been ways around it like different system design / architecture... like IBM had MCA whereas everyone else had standard old ISA... until Compaq and the gang of 9 introduced EISA.

Quality post спасибо!

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Reply 2 of 3, by Jo22

Posted on 2016-08-31, 05:04

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Thank you very much, jheronimus! 😁

Can't wait for this documentation !
- I've just set a bookmark in my browser! ^^

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Reply 3 of 3, by GuyTechie

Posted on 2016-08-31, 22:45

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Posting to subscribe. 😀

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