Silicon Cowboys

They risked their future to create ours...

Silicon Cowboys — 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.

• Release date
• September 16, 2016
• Runtime
• 77 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Jason Cohen

Silicon Cowboys — Cast

Rod Canion Self Bill Murto Self

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Jim Harris Self

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Bill Fargo Self

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Hugh Barnes Self

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Gary Stimac Self

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Steve Flannigan Self

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Mike Swavely Self