硅之牛仔Silicon Cowboys Movie Script

杰瑞发布于2022-10-24

Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know. 1981年,三位朋友在得克萨斯州的一家餐馆里梦想着康柏便携式电脑,很快就发现自己在与强大的IBM争夺PC霸主地位。他们不可思议的旅程改变了计算机的未来,塑造了我们现在所知的世界。

What we knew was that ibm had come Out with a product that was made with off the shelf components.
A personal computer, like any other computer, Is just a nothing box full of electronic switches And hardware.
Rod canion:
They hadn't designed a new disk Drive or a new processor.
Anyone can buy all this stuff off the shelf right now.
Rod canion:
This was stuff that everybody in the industry Was using some form or another.
Except the chip.
Except what's on the chip.
Steve flannigan:
Without ibm code it wouldn't run.
It is the program, it is the magic.
Rod canion:
We sent gary stimac to dallas to buy some manuals.
Gary stimac:
I purchased an ibm reference manual, And it had all the listings of the ibm code in it.
Rod canion:
He says, whoa, this isn't hard at all.
Bad news is they copyrighted it, and they own how it works.
Gary stimac:
I circled the word copyright, Brought it to the my lawyer, and he said, hmm.
Jim harris:
What many of the companies were doing was They were copying ibm's code.
Guess what, ibm sued them-- out of business they were.
Good news is there's a way around that, sort of.
We needed to make sure that we did Not shoot ourselves in the foot from a legal standpoint.
I said, gary, you can no longer write the code Because you've looked at it.
In fact, you can't answer questions about the code.
You're going to have to find a different job here at compaq.
Steve flannigan:
You can never look, you just can never look.
If you look, and it influences your work, Then you can be open to a lawsuit and you've copied it.
Gary stimac:
No one in the entire office Could ever buy a tech reference manual Without me removing the pages and me destroying them.
Charles lee:
We had to basically create a functional device that Would do what the ibm pc did without knowing How the ibm pc did it.