Silicon Cowboys (Special Director's Edition)
They risked their future to create ours...
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 17 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 22, 2016
- Originally Released: 2016
- Label: Film Rise
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Jason Cohen |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Cohen solicits commentary from a range of tech entrepreneurs and aficionados (including Chris Cantwell, creator of Halt and Catch Fire); their excitement is contagious, fueling a dramatic rise-and-fall business tale.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/4 --
Jason Cohen's slick aesthetics manage to elevate Silicon Cowboys beyond fellow "info dumps" of this caliber.
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Slant Magazine
These former-Texas Instruments-employees-made-good are a likable bunch, especially in their particularly Texan way of recalling every major milestone in terms of what they were eating or drinking at the time.
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Village Voice
A fascinating account of maverick innovators during the Wild West era of personal computing.
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Variety
The unacknowledged irony is that [Halt and Catch Fire] didn't really find its voice until it moved away from the Compaq story in its second season, but Silicon Cowboys tells the true story very well indeed.
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SF Weekly
A zippy, compact history of the rise and rise of Compaq Computer Corp.
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Los Angeles Times
You won't walk away with a degree in business or psychology after watching "Silicon Cowboys." But this documentary leaves you with a curious feeling that you've earned college credit in both, and gotten a few laughs as well.
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New York Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
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. Silicon Cowboys explores the remarkable David vs. Goliath rise, and eventual demise, of Compaq, an unlikely upstart that altered the future of computing and helped shape the world as we know it today.
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- UPC: 191091212400
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