硅之牛仔Silicon Cowboys Movie Script

I would like to own that thing.

I would love to have that, that's better than anything I've seen on the market.

man, houston's the town.

Here's the action town.

Roger mcnamee:

Get your iphone, you look at the half million Apps that each of us has on there, And you look at all of the products Designed for other platforms that miraculously seem to work.

And we now take that for granted.

Before compaq, nobody took compatibility seriously.

Gary, the subject today is the ibm clones, And the question I get asked more than anything else By people who are about to buy computers is, Should I buy an ibm, or should I buy one of the ibm lookalikes?

I think I'm told there's about 50 ibm clones Out there on the market now.

What's the difference, do you think, Between a clone that makes it and a clone that fails?

Steve flannigan:

We didn't want to do A better machine than ibm, we didn't want To technically be superior.

We wanted the software to run the same.

Gary stimac:

The keystrokes were identical, You didn't have to look at a different manual, There was no training required.

You just sat in front of it, and it worked the same.

Rod canion:

It wasn't some vague definition Of what does compatibility mean-- it was very clear.

We have to run all the software, and use all The peripherals that ibm does.

Do you have any idea how expensive this thing was?

Let's turn this thing inside out.

Chris cantwell:

"halt & catch fire" Is a show about the reverse engineering Process of the ibm pc.

The thing that really drew us to texas was the story of compaq.

You've got characters that, for all intents and purposes, Feel like outlaws, and they're coming in to take on ibm.

And they basically do it by robbing a bank.

Nobody ever got fired for buying an ibm, right?

You can be more.

This is your chance.