The PC that finally defeated IBM
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- Опубліковано 21 бер 2024
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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
Music by Epidemic Sound: epidemicsound.com/creator
Stock Footage from Getty - Наука та технологія
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.
This is a teaser. I can understand if you're willing to promote more the parent company.
However, this is an ad.
My intent was to write a video about the early days of Compaq and the Compaq portable. The ad read at the end was not written or added to the script until 2 months after the first script was done.
The point of people watching in Nebula is to fund videos in the first place.
@@LowSpecGamer thanks for answering.
I am not involved in the production, thanks for sharing the production timing.
I can consume only the content, and I stand by what I felt like the enjoyable first 8 minutes are closer to an ad than a content.
Your videos are great. Wonderful graphics, but the historical inaccuracies I have noticed in your videos about Apple have made me regard your videos as fiction. I will no longer be viewing any of your stuff. Cheers.
@narayantaniwa5091 apple fan gets narky on PC video... the more thing change the more they stay the same
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
Yo. Fellow Code Lyoko fan! And yeah I agree emulators are 100% legit, it's just that it's easier to threaten to sue and waste money and time in court even if you're going to lose the court case because the emulator developers do not have the same resources.
Welcome to corporate America...
Yep. RIP Yuzu and Citra o7
The mistake of Yuzu was using a leaked copy of Zelda TOTK to update the emulator. And since Yuzu was also the same team of Citra... F
@@jmtradbr eeeh the warez copy didn't run even on the exclusive builds, you had to patch it manually.
But yeah, sadly they brought upon themselves enough attention to trigger big N; we need better laws to protect reverse engineering...
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.
The final episode will be released later on, plus I'd much rather pay for nebula than give money to youtube when you can get most of yt premium's features on alternate frontends like invidious
Any form of advertisement in any video automatically means the product or service should be boycotted.
LOW SPEC GAMER IS BACK despite the increasingly inaccurate channel name
love his game breaking stuff and tinkering modding etc for games. reaching 30FPS etc
Low spec gaming has been dead for quite a while since the pandemic so he turned to a new market.
he's dead
3:58 OBJECTION!!! i didn't realize there were spirit-channeling lawyers involved in this story.
Not only that, but some serious business. Otherwise, it would be her sister there 😂
an ace attorney reference out in the wild is a surprise but a welcome one
@@draggador hello there!
The only problem with these videos is how short they are...
@@MoChuang343It's like the Sims or Civ DLCs which are mandatory to make their games playable.
TBF, too much of a good thing is a bad thing, and rmember that longer videos take more effort to make and edit
A feedback I have gotten often is that I go too much into tangents. Seems I have overcorrected, so I will go into tangents again
@@LowSpecGamer we love tangents 😀
@@LowSpecGamerTangents are AWESOME. The more the merrier. Just include chapter markers so people who don't like the tangents can skip 'em and those of us who love them can skip TO them. ❤
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!
Oh man, that is crazy
@@LowSpecGamer vine acá para saber si usaste el nombre pirata de Malvinas
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.
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.
Coincidence. There was a brief time in 1997 when Compaq was planning to buy out Gateway 2000 (As it was called then), but the deal fell through.
Huh, so before opening her own office Mia was a legal advisor for tech.
This is just the first season of Halt and Catch Fire
Halt and Catch fire season 1 is very loosely inspired by Compaq. I would love for a more accurate show to exist
I was going to say the same thing 😅
Do people have any original ideas anymore?
@@LowSpecGamer I loved the show so I wikipediad the story to see if it was based on a true story. Very nice.
@@manmadeaids You always have to stand on the shoulders of giants.
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
there’s a spelling error in the title :)
Never seen a title change live like that--neat.
You didn't type the title correctly 😅
I got to see it in notifications but he fixed it until it loaded up.... I was like... Have i lost it that bad? 😅😂
Late comer here. Looks like it's fixed. What was the original statement?
Awesome videos man
I highly recommend reading _Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing_ by *Rod Canion.*
Ill be honest mate, youre cutting the freebie content thin novadays
I miss the old videos this channel used to make. And why even delete them?
he didn't delete them they are just all on a playlist he created
he went over this in the first video back
It's a shame I won't see the end of the story.
My first PC was made by Columbia Data Systems. You mentioned them briefly in the video. I'd love to see a story about them.
Why Columbia? IBM and Compaq PCs were sold in "business" stores like ComputerLand. I walked into one of these stores once and they wouldn't give me the time of day.
So I read about the Columbia in Byte Magazine and found someone selling them out of ramshackle store front. They got my $2700, not IBM or Compaq. That was in 1984. $2700 then is about $8100 in 2024.
WAHOO!! New Episode!
Keep it Up Brotha!
Excellent Job!
Amazing videos The animators and script writers are doing an amazing job if only more people could give the videos a chance they are really well made and Fun to watch!
Any other Halt and Catch Fire fans really loved the BIOS bit?
The book in the source was written by Rod Canion, not Rod Cannon
How on earth can you prove that there was/wasnt any commnication in this "clean room" process. Sounds it can easily be abused
You cannot always, but you need to prove there was a crime to persecute someone for said crime. In todays age, copying code without trace is impossible. Using similar structure, similar abstractions, all the emails, internet cookies, messages to the collegues... It's almost impossible not being caught. It's easier just doing the cleam room approach than faking it
They can't really, it's easy to fake and is in fact faked all the time. The opposing legal team always tries to prove it was (even if it wasn't) so you better have flawless fake (or real) documentation. Alternatively in some countries a clean room isn't required at all and you can always do your research there. Other ways include for some "hacker" to mysteriously release the information onto the internet and let the genie out of the bottle like happened with Blu-Ray and HDMI content protection. Once something like that is out in the open it's impossible to scrub it from the public record (though they really, really tried hard when that happened to DVD encryption and utterly failed to do so)
FU.
Even stronger than the fabled IBM5100?? The organization might be interested
Love how you took the lawyer from Phoenix Wright
IBM really likes being defeated in the PC department. Over. And over.
I'm most disappointed that IBM didn't insist on keeping IBM branding for their computers after they sold off their PC department in the mid '00s.
Pls also cover old pc or rare laptops and game or benchmark it. Miss ur vids from the early days 😢
4:32, this is literally the game plan for all emulator creators right now. 😂😂😂
You can easily fake a clean room reverse engineering process and this is done a LOT.
Do a video on the IDT Winchip next! I think it is fascinating how it came to exist in such a saturated socket 7 market and only existed briefly before being bought by VIA.
Existed briefly is a stretch. Via also bought Cyrix, then slapped Cyrix's name on slightly improved Winchips.
It could be argued that every VIA/Zhaoxin CPU is a descendant of the Winchip, the same way current Intel CPUs are evolutions of the Pentium M
Rod Canion is a true hero.
The IBM bios is the same bios that we use today? It wasn't a part of the motherboard?
Nah, most computers use UEFI nowadays, and I'm pretty sure that BIOSes changed plenty over the years
Yeah for bios's im talking about the old ones before UEFI.
But that was what make the PC or it was something different? As a concept@@Valery0p5
Almost. The legacy BIOS a lot of PCs still use is a descendant from one of the clean room clones of the IBM original.
@@LowSpecGamer so the motherboard manufacturer didn't provide the bios? That's what separates IBM PCs from others? With the use of MS-DOS
@@JohnnyWalkerKatThe motherboard manufactures usually licensed the BIOS from Phoenix or AMI, which all can be traced back to a clean-room clones of IBM's.
Finally! a new LSG video :')
has been waiting for this
Really not a fan of this here's half a story, now go pay for something entirely different to watch the rest. I'm already paying for this website!
Sure, you might have commitments with nebula, but this kind of practice makes me never want to try it out.
Nice
I love my Compaq Portable. This right here is the reason I own one!
Wow! I love your productions. I stil havent signed up for Nebula, but I love your storytelling. Ill at least subscribe to this channel
When the floodgates to IBM compatable computing were opend.
Sudden Company Lawyer English-Accented Mia Fey
I mean, this is retro computing stuff about history.
Was not expecting Mia to be the lawyer lol
Hooray the title is fixed
COMPAQ!! LET'S GOOOOO
IBM’r here……….. we’re still killing it.
Oh hey the Compaq Portable, I sent one of these to Michelle MJD.
PC compatibles were the best thing to happen to the PC market. It opened up compatibility among brands. Apple/Mac had some clones too as an alternative to the premium priced Apple/Macs but failed to survive. Compaq didn't make the best products but opened up the market ultimately benefiting PC users. IBM clones/compatibles allowed for wider software development where Apple failed to utilize and allowed Microshaft to grow exponentially.
Ah ibm wonder still alive
dont listen to him, i bet he works for sern
IBM could have ruled the IT world had it bought out Microsoft when it had the opportunity to.
these videos are awesome, but they've become so short and not conclusive that seem more and more just trailers of the "real" video pay-per-view... 😕
Sounds like it all came from IBM's mistake of writing the entire code of their bios in thr manual.
To know more, listen to the recent episodes of "Advent of Computing" podcast.
Battle of Budget gpus😂🎉
Wish I could subscribe on Nebula but they don't accept PayPal and stores don't sell credit cards anymore where I live
The had to happen the war
Correction: The Pc *that* finally defeated IBM
Thanks I was about to comment this
Dang I thought you had a new video out, but I watched this 4 months ago on Nebula.
Hi dear. I understand the change of path in your videos, trying to cover more in deep story, fun facts, and pc and videogame trivia. But i advice you to reconsider, the channel is called "lowspecgamer" . This should be your target. I remember the video were you explained why decided to change as "low spec gaming isnt relevant anymore". Nothing far from true, as the low spec is more alive than ever, with the sucess of the Mini Pcs and ryzen / intel igpus!! Im an owner of those myself and enjoy checking if x game fun and how it runs with my portable configuration. Its a crowded space , i get it, and it requires more effort and being outstanding to gain visibility, but i truly believe your videos were special.
An yway, good luck with the channel, im seeing its a bit "abandoned". Hope you revive it! Regards.
BAIT AND SWITCH!
Used to love this channel but now all the videos are just teaser ads for Nebula.
some say she's got an extra stomach (for dualboots)
Your thumbnails never miss lmao
Wonderful!
"We wrote 'no copyright infringement intended' at the top... It's probably fair use." That's a great line to describe UA-cam haha.
Spotted a Commodore Amiga 500 @ 3:21
It's just a nebula ad(
that. you mean that.
The Nebula bait and switch is so annoying. No, I won't sign up for it or go there to watch it. I'll just go watch someone else.
Folding Ideas saying that Nebula is going to utterly ruin UA-cam and he would only join if he was short of cash, and even then wouldn't make exclusive content for them because he fundamentally disagreed with them, is looking more correct with each passing day.
Honestly it's just money grabbing. Thank god nebula is at least slightly selective so money hungry idiots like lowspecgamer are at a minimum. I hope no one uses his stupid discount code.
Also given that Compaq paid IBM millions and publicly admitted that their clean room copy of the Bios wasn't as clean as they had claimed, they just hid it better than others, I don't trust the veracity of his info.
Hey dude, chill, just be glad there are people that make content this good for basically free for us
@@medes5597I wouldn't quite say that. Sure, I'm broke and can't afford Nebula, so I can't and probably will never get it. And sure, some people put perfectly normal videos that could just be up on UA-cam on it, making it so people like me can't see it. But one of my favorite channels Tale Foundry puts the kinds of things that wouldn't do well in the algorithm, or would get demonitised on it. And that way at least he makes something on it instead of working on it for a long time, making no money off of it, and being less able to make money off the next one because UA-cam gives up on his channel.
@medes5597 Calling someone a money hungry idiot because they don't make content that is essentially free for you is extremely entitled
I'll bet that you probably use an ad blocker and don't support LSG. Making this stuff isn't free, and the people who pay for nebula are part of the reason why you are getting it.
Imagine if this doesn't happened. We probably move to different architecture for each generation depending who is currently on top of the market. Not to mention the PC probably won't as modular as today
the
I do not understand the message of this video. The author has absolutely no idea what happened. After all, IBM did what it had to do: it slaughtered all possible competition and forced a globally crappy x86 standard, which was already archaic when it started. This created an absolute monopoly for years under USA control. And this was the task of IBM, which fulfilled it perfectly. Intel on its own was not able to achieve this, because Intel was, and still is, just a basic subcontractor to IBM. Once the goal was achieved, they concentrated on what was their main activity: servicing mega-corporations and entire countries - which they had been doing for decades (I remind you that they were already doing it in Germany servicing e.g. concentration camps). I have the impression that the author of this material does not understand what IBM **really** is, living in fairy tales and thinking that all that happened was a failure and an accident.
You'd like to buy an ARM-powered pc every year,
even if you just need a better performing video core ?
ARM is garbage everywhere but portable devices
not able to work with pcie, it's a shame that new macbooks can't have egpu because the garbage called ARM is just not capable of it, and don't tell me that the graphics built into apple m-series processors is enough for everything, it's not, this garbage is comparable to nvidia 1050,
Needless to say, the only normal laptop from apple is any windows laptop with macOS installed via opencore.
@@SL4RK Wrong on many fronts.
eGPUs do not work on apple because apple will not work on GPU drivers for anything but their own GPUs
Chips from Ampere has PCIe support and can run with both Nvidia and AMD GPUs.
Even something like the raspberry pi 5 can work with desktop GPUs (some work needed)
Jeff Geerling makes a lot of interesting videos on ARM stuff, I suggest you check him out.
"crappy x86 standard" stopped reading here, you clearly don't know what you're talking about
@@balukrol No problem, you don't need to read further at all. Cheers!
BTW: But at least I have mastered writing sentences: they begin with a capital letter and end with a period. LOL
kinda disappointed in the length - this ... miniseries ... no good...
Bro huge fan of yours, can u correct the title
NEW EP ON UA-cam LET'S F'ING GOOOOOO
(and new ep on Nebula to boot YEAH BOIIIIII)
Comment for the Algorithm
I just bought one for $10!
I miss the old low spec gamer
@jjkigtu And who cares? His old contents were some of the best.
Seriously, I'm tremendously disappointed with this channel, the videos are quality, but it's very disrespectful to put the final part on a paid service that isn't even available in many countries, for example, even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to subscribe to the Channel on Nebula, because they reject subscriptions/purchases from my country, this "Trilogy" is nothing more than an advertisement, I understand that it's expensive to produce these videos, but this is a disgusting attitude, worthy of old IBM or Nintendo's current anti-consumer practices
The finaly lol
yes
early, aka 33 minutes ago
Broooo is back, hope you're doing fine
When I worked tech support for them, they told us the name was a portmanteau of "compatibility and quality" 😊 they were a good company. Hp was not. And I definitely don't miss customer service
Didn’t this guy use to make tutorials vow to run games on low end systems? Fell off hard
Nice. I'm looking forward to watching the videos on Nebula once I get a better source of income.
Nebula bait and switch again, oh god i am tired of these, i am unsubing man
Watching free content and complaining about it is so weird.
Can't blame mr. LowSpec using an opportunity to make money off his months of work. Blame UA-cam for underpaying its creators and poisoning its content with ads
yay time to wait 3 months for the next video i would subscribe to nebula but i don't have many for that but it was a great video
edit: acidently clicked the post button
damn ngl that thunmbnail is kinda steamy
Eff Nebula 💪🏻🖕
Why would you delete your old videos. The ones that got you a following? I understand wanting to switch, but we cant even go back and watch ur old videos now… unsubbing
They aren't completely gone. They are in a playlist called "Old school lowSpecGamer"
He went over this in the video where he switched content gears
Nebula shill video
L opinion
Babe, WAKE UP ! 🎉
I thought I would be en español, que paso? 🤔🤣
Of course this is click bait. Sadly disappointed in this channel.
No this need atleast 10 times more views
No Falklands, islas Malvinas
It's been over 40 years
*You lost.*
@@DDRWakaLaka war is not a game
@@inframundo1919 i didn't say it was. i said it was over 40 years ago
there's a thousand things wrong with Argentina and you're still focused on an island with more sheep than people
Great videos, but your background music really triggers my misophonia.