The First Computer War - Betting the Store
- Podcast Episode
- 2018
- 25m
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, em... Read allIt'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 computer market - and managed to frus... Read allIt'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 computer market - and managed to frustrate the public all at the same time. IBM's new technology is confusing and the only way ... Read all