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The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 8:06 Ben Gilbert Before the IBM PC and before DOS, can you catch listeners up who weren't around at that time?
- ▶ 15:16 Ben Gilbert But what ended up happening after all these years, and I imagine it only took a few years to see it play out, was IBM sold a ton of IBM PCs, and DOS was the operating system.
- ▶ 19:48 Ben Gilbert It goes on the IBM PC.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 40:55 David Rosenthal This is the RFP to be the microprocessor, the CPU for the secret project, the IBM PC.
- ▶ 41:09 David Rosenthal To build the PC, which was a big, you know, IBM was the mainframe company.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:27 Ben Gilbert Before, the whole business model of computers was good luck just replicating an IBM PC and everything that comes with it.
- ▶ 1:02:03 Ben Gilbert The other thing that's useful to know is when you're selling an IBM PC, you're literally selling a PC to a customer.
- ▶ 1:21:32 David Rosenthal The Microsoft IBM, I mean, it's crazy to even say it now, the Microsoft IBM PC partnership.
- ▶ 1:24:23 David Rosenthal So the IBM PC.
- ▶ 1:32:52 David Rosenthal They have to ship the PC to customers within one year.
- ▶ 1:34:46 David Rosenthal The standardized software packaged application software doesn't happen until the 16 bit era and doesn't really, really happen until the 16 bit era and the IBM PC.
- ▶ 1:35:03 David Rosenthal IBM calls up Bill Gates, and by August, 1980, the two companies are in serious talks to partner and work together on the IBM PC.
- ▶ 1:35:26 David Rosenthal The Microsoft team of 30, which the whole company of Microsoft pivots to, like, work on the IBM PC
- ▶ 1:42:02 Ben Gilbert Is a customized version of an operating system for the IBM PC.
- ▶ 1:42:27 Ben Gilbert Of every IBM PC sold and IBM walks over that.
- ▶ 1:42:30 Ben Gilbert So whether that happened or whether it's just an NDA issue, either way, I think we all know the IBM PC did not end up running the CPM operating system.
- ▶ 1:45:45 David Rosenthal Later on, before this all gets announced and the PC ships, Microsoft would pay Seattle computer products another 50,000 dollars for full rights to own
- ▶ 1:50:38 Ben Gilbert And now in the 16 bit generation, when there are people building programs for computers, not just developers, once those application developers who are writing programs are targeting an operating system, then that is the operating system…
- ▶ 1:52:47 David Rosenthal That there would be a million hardware manufacturers flowers blooming here.
- ▶ 1:54:08 Ben Gilbert Yeah, the deal that Bill Gates made with IBM for the IBM PC is the greatest deal in at least computer industry history, if not all business history, full stop.
- ▶ 1:54:46 David Rosenthal The IBM PC ships in August, 1981.
- ▶ 1:55:11 David Rosenthal They sell 13,500 IBM PCs within the first couple months after they announce it.
- ▶ 2:13:32 David Rosenthal There's a couple more really, really key things that happened in the PC era, and particularly now, once we're into the IBM PC era and the clones, the sixteen-bit era, and let's start with applications.
- ▶ 2:20:07 David Rosenthal And then the next generation, the IBM PC era, they sort of make the same mistake.
- ▶ 2:20:29 David Rosenthal Only for the IBM PC.
- ▶ 2:41:28 Ben Gilbert Well, I mean, the IBM PC was such a big deal last time around, you would think that whatever IBM wants to do next is a pretty good way to ally yourself.
- ▶ 2:41:40 David Rosenthal IBM, obviously the PC was a huge success, but losing dominance of the ecosystem to the clones.
- ▶ 2:53:10 David Rosenthal oh yeah, like, Bill did this great business deal with IBM and anticipated the rise of the clones in the first PC and won, and then, like, Microsoft now was the thing, and IBM was, like, the old thing.
- ▶ 3:22:36 Ben Gilbert From the IBM PC forward, it never had big market share.
- ▶ 4:02:27 Ben Gilbert The magic of getting the whole deal with the IBM PC and then getting to sell licenses to all the other OEMs.
- ▶ 4:02:46 Ben Gilbert It didn't start as a cornered resource, but as soon as IBM started shipping it on the IBM PCs, it was over.