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The First Computer War

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misaeljoelvera

Created October 29, 2023

Updated October 29, 2023

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  1. Business Wars

    The First Computer War - The Electronic Brain

    Apr 19th, 201822m 21s
    With so much information at our fingertips, it’s hard to remember that we haven’t always walked around with supercomputers in our pockets. In fact, in 1952, CBS thought that Americans would find it SO hard to imagine that a machine could even p
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  2. Business Wars

    The First Computer War - Father, Son, and The Future

    Apr 24th, 201824m 46s
    How do you really “get ahead” in a war? Sometimes you don’t have to do anything, you just wait for your opponent to fumble.And in the late 1940s, IBM’s CEO Thomas Watson Sr., did. He’s just beginning to grasp the potential of these electronic m
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  3. Business Wars

    The First Computer War - IBM versus The UNIVAC

    Apr 26th, 201823m 25s
    What’s a 16% market share when the public thinks you have more? A potential anti-trust suit, if you’re IBM. Watson Jr. sees a potential lawsuit as a way out from under his father’s control. Sr. sees his company rotting away in the hands of a ki
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  4. Business Wars

    The First Computer War - Abdication

    May 1st, 201825m 49s
    In Episode 1 the UNIVAC successfully predicted that Eisenhower would win the 1952 election. In Philadelphia, a champagne hangover quickly settled in over the Remington Rand building, the company elated at its success. But over at IBM, a company
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  5. Business Wars

    The First Computer War - Betting the Store

    May 3rd, 201824m 15s
    It’s 1961. Since his father retired 5 years earlier, Thomas Watson Jr pushed to modernize IBM from the top down. New management, new ideas, newer, faster, machines. The company has grown, employing 1,000 people, they’ve dominated the emerging c
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  6. Business Wars

    The First Computer War - Computing Gets Personal

    May 8th, 201826m 18s
    After all that IBM has been through over the decades, it would have never in a million years guessed that their undoing would be at the hands of a scrawny and unknown computer nerd named Bill Gates. Gates sees the future, but can IBM catch up?
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