Project Chess, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone David Rosenthal 6Ben Gilbert 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Project Chess comes up
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:32:07 David Rosenthal And they create a secret project called Project Chess.
- ▶ 1:33:01 David Rosenthal Don Estridge, who was one of the leaders of Project Chess, he would later say that the company realized that if you're gonna compete against people who started in a garage, obviously a reference to Apple here, you have to start in a garage…
- ▶ 1:35:32 David Rosenthal Partnership is bigger than the project chess team in Boca.
- ▶ 1:40:14 David Rosenthal IBM, that team from Project Chess, flies down, I think directly from Seattle, and talking with Bill and Steve, to Monterey, California, where Digital Research is based at this point, to meet with Gary and his wife Dorothy, who run the…
- ▶ 1:54:50 David Rosenthal Almost exactly a year, a little more than a year from the time Project's chess starts to when they actually ship the PC.
- ▶ 4:04:00 Ben Gilbert The fact that IBM called the project chess is so deeply ironic because Bill Gates was playing chess and they played checkers.
- ▶ 4:04:12 David Rosenthal We gotta give IBM so much credit for Project Chess and the PC.