The PC that finally defeated IBM

As IBM does a victory lap over the PC market one company figures a legal way to beat them at their own game.

Source:

Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing - Rod Canion

Credits:
Research and Writing: LowSpecAlex
Voice over: LowSpecAlex
Editing: LowSpecAlex
3D animation: Windy, Divye
Art: Maiku no Koe
Spanish Translation, Audio editing and QA: Henrique von Buren
Thumbnail design: Maiku no Koe
VA director and sourcing: Jesús Hernández/Dubbing Home
Special VA guest: ​⁠ @RealLifeLore @MarySpender

Stock Footage from Getty

[LowSpecGamer]

All right. I think some clarification and course correction on my part is in order.

I try for every episode to have some sort of arc that can be followed independently, so videos can be watched out of order. I have also received plenty of feedback that I tend to go into too many tangents that make them hard to follow, so I have been trying to stick to a single story line. It seems I overdid it on this one, which combined with a not great conclusion makes the video too short. I will start correcting my tangent cutting and make an additional pass at the ending of following scripts to make sure it is more conclusive.

This is not some artificial script cutting just to promote Nebula. While Nebula viewers are tremendous important, 100% of that money from Nebula goes to pay the 3D and 2D artists, script revision assistant, etc. I run the channel slightly at a loss and reinvest it all on the people helping me make the videos. This is at the moment purely a self sustaining passion project. I got no incentive to monetise beyond that.

My layout for these 3 videos are:

Part 1: The start of the IBM PC
Part 2: The start of Compaq and their first computer
Part 3: The EISA coalition defeating IBM out of the PC.

I think I overdid it in trying to avoid tangents and ended with an unsatisfying ending for Part 2, which makes part 3 not feel like a separate thing for those who have yet to watch it. I am going to take that feedback and be more mindful of future scripts.

[Valeryp]

The clean room process has been essential to provide interoperability between different systems, especially for emulators.
Sadly, some companies still love to bully developers with the threat of endless legal... battles

[chrisronin]

3:58 OBJECTION!!! i didn't realize there were spirit-channeling lawyers involved in this story.

[Kurotaisa]

LOW SPEC GAMER IS BACK despite the increasingly inaccurate channel name

[PailosRey]

The only problem with these videos is how short they are...

[matthewschmitt]

My Father was the manager at Texas Intruments who oversaw the team that became Compaq, he has told me many stories about this time. The most humorous of these was ho the begged Rob to take him with as their ongoing manager. They left him behind as they knew the money was going to be good enough that they didn't need any help outside of the software engineers. Interesting to see this from an outside perspective, good video!

[kaneo]

Nebula. No. I already pay for many streaming services on top of YT. Don't need/want another.

If you decided to release on YT 6 months or a year later, that woukd be fine. But I'm not paying more when every bill I have is already skyrocketing.

[KanaevM]

Huh, so before opening her own office Mia was a legal advisor for tech.

[michaelturner]

I was astonished to hear Gateway at the beginning, because I was pretty sure it was Compaq. Then I heard the name change part. Now I have to speculate if the cow pattern company had anything to do with early Compaq or if it was just coincidence.

[JimJoyyy]

Ill be honest mate, youre cutting the freebie content thin novadays

[leifmessinger]

This is just the first season of Halt and Catch Fire

[batowl]

would've made more money from your old videos instead of unlisting them

[kylerbartsch]

there’s a spelling error in the title :)

[_digitalcoffee]

I love the videos but you didn't really pull this one together as a standalone piece as well as you have done with some of your earlier work.

[HrisG]

You didn't type the title correctly 😅

[orangeleaf]

I love these tech lore videos so far, but my only complaint is the fact that your channel is still named "LowSpecGamer". I found the channel from those tech lore videos, but then I found out about the older, now unlisted videos along with a different set of audience. An audience that perfectly fits what the channel used to be, and in some among them, whose lives you may have changed. I love the kinds of videos you make now, but at least don't abandon your old audience like that.

It would've been better to make a second channel if what you wanted to accomplish is a fresh start thiugh

[letcreate]

3:56 I busted out laughing whenever Mia Fey just came on the screen. From how sudden her appearance was to the fact that every other person introduced in the video had been a real life person made it all the more whiplash-inducing when she, from an AA game, appeared out of nowhere lmao

[sonataonmymind]

It's a shame I won't see the end of the story.

[the-nut]

I miss the old videos this channel used to make. And why even delete them?

[maksymilianzajac]

how about you delete your new videos and uprivate old ones?