Compaq Computers: Rod Canion (2019)
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So back in the nineteen eighties, Rod Canyon left Texas instruments with one vision. To create a better portable computer. He had no idea his twenty eight pound invention would not only compete but also beat out computing giant IBM.
We first ran this episode in May of twenty seventeen and there is a lot of great stuff in here. Enjoy. Well It's assumed that if IBM enters a market, they take over and push everybody out. Yeah.
February of nineteen eighty four. IBM introduces their own portable into the market. Our order stopped because before it actually was introduced, they were showing it to dealers and customers in. They just stopped ordering ours. That was that was a very
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