The requested page title contains invalid characters: "%26". Return to Main Page.They considered opening a Mexican restaurant. Instead, three restless Texas-based pals threw down with IBM and wound up dramatically altering the future of computing. “Silicon Cowboys,” a lively new feature-length documentary directed by Berkeley filmmaker Jason Cohen, tells the story of Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, co-founders of Compaq Computer Corp., the upstart company that redefined the concept of early portable computers. Launched in 1982 over dinner in a Houston diner, Compaq set out to create a portable PC to take on IBM, the world’s mightiest tech titan. Several companies had already tried cloning the industry leader’s code, only to be trounced by Big Blue and its high-priced lawyers. What they eventually came up with was a “luggable” personal computer capable of operating IBM desktop software. It weighed 28 pounds and came in a case resembling a sewing machine carrier.

Not so much, but they flew off the shelves. In just a few years, Compaq burst into the Fortune 500 and became a major irritant to IBM. business for sale murciaCohen, who earned an Oscar nomination for his 2013 documentary short “Facing Fear,” asserts in the film that we owe our smartphones and other nifty tech gadgets to those three guys.business for sale limavady “As a documentary filmmaker, I am always looking for that story that can educate and enlighten but ultimately entertain an audience,” Cohen says in the film’s press material. handyman services in utahThe story of Compaq Computer plays out as a classic David-vs.-Goliath story that also just happened to change the face of computing and how we all connect with each other 30 years later. cost for handyman per hour

It’s exciting to relive the accounts of the visionaries who made this all happen and dictated how we all interact today.”business for sale bullsbrook wa “Silicon Cowboys,” which debuted at South By Southwest, opens Friday in San Jose at the Camera 3, and the Roxie and Four Star theaters in San Francisco. business for sale mirrabookaThe film also will be available via On Demand. FAMILIAR FACES: The fall TV season begins in earnest on Monday and, in the coming weeks we’ll do our best to spotlight Bay Area natives involved in front of and behind the camera. (And there are a lot of them). In a rare occurrence, a couple of shows even have two Bay Area-bred performers featured in their casts. They are Fox’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” with Andy Samberg (Berkeley) and Chelsea Peretti (Oakland), and ABC’s “Dr. Ken,” with Albert Tsai (San Jose) and Krista Marie Yu (Berkeley).

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