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Silicon Cowboys

They risked their future to create ours...

6.8(84)20161h 17m1

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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Released
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Language
English
  • based on novel or book
  • texas
  • david vs. goliath
  • ibm
  • 1980s
  • 80s style
  • computing
  • compaq
  • pc
  • portable computer

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Behind the camera

Director

Jason Cohen

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNRSXSW Film Festival11 Mar 2016
    • PremiereNRMontclair Film Festival1 May 2016
    • TheatricalNR16 Sept 2016

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Silicon Cowboys was released on 16 September 2016.

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