IBM Personal Computer, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where IBM Personal Computer comes up on Acquired, How I Built This, Founders, the a16z Podcast, the Knowledge Project
“Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
- ▶ 11:02 Alex Rampell Like, you know, everybody had an IBM PC.
IBM's AI Rollercoaster, Demis Calls for AI Watchdog, NY Pauses AI Data Centers | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:21 unnamed speaker So, uh, the IBM PC launched in 1981. 2 times in the scene
Wall Street Rejected This CEO & Then He Did a $200M IPO | Kanwal Rekhi
- ▶ 15:06 Kanwal Rekhi Was the year sort of world changed IBM PC data announced, you know, the first time there's a professional machine on the desktop of the office workers backed by IBM.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 1:51:36 Rory Sutherland Everybody was competing to make a slightly faster IBM-compatible PC, but they were all grey and beige. 2 times in the scene
The AI presentation
- ▶ 9:05 Benedict Evans There were a lot of people making PCs before IBM produced the, the IBM PC.
Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
- ▶ 46:53 Shane Parrish The IBM PC wasn't technically revolutionary. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 54:56 Marc Andreessen IBM PC. 2 times in the scene
Michael Dell, Dell Technologies | David Senra
- ▶ 7:04 Michael Dell And, you know, when I, uh, originally got the first IBM PC, you know, yeah, 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:17 Rory O'Driscoll Brutal comment here, just like IBM got a buzz when they shipped the first PC, because they got a product out the door, but they let this competitor emerge in their midst.
Building Entrepreneurship in Research Park at Florida Atlantic University: A Conversation with Andrew Duffel, President of Research Park
- ▶ 11:42 Andrew Duffell There's the, the original IBM facility where the original PC was developed, is right across the highway from our
Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet
- ▶ 13:24 Craig Newmark The only thing I did which I thought was, was really good was I was a core member of a team building a series one as a card that would fit inside of a PC. 2 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 59:29 David Senra Paul continues, Microsoft's biggest asset wasn't the version that we'd made specifically for IBM PCs.
Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
- ▶ 1:23 Steven Sinofsky It was like, okay, we have 64 K IBM PC era of the microcomputer. okay, we have 60 2 times in the scene
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 14:10 Steven Sinofsky But after Steve left, the company had enormous difficulty competing with the IBM, uh, PC. 2 times in the scene
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.
What Great Founders Really Do | David Senra on TBPN
- ▶ 16:12 David Senra He's making a ton of money, essentially just buying IBM PCs, souping them up and then selling them to rich architects, dentists, doctors and stuff like that. 2 times in the scene
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 15:46 David Senra IBM introduced its PC.
- ▶ 23:07 David Senra So he says, uh, the moment that I opened up my new IBM PC and looked inside, I thought, how do I soup this thing up? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:45 David Senra I was still upgrading IBM PCs, still buying disk drives and hard drives and memory chips and installing them in the 4 times in the scene
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 40:17 Steven Sinofsky And if the biggest lesson for computing starting in 1981 with the IBM PC or frankly, 1977 with the Apple has been the creativity at the edge.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:38:02 Alfred Lin When I was in junior high school, one of the things I did as a business was to build PCs, clone PCs, because the IBM PC, XT, AT, they were really expensive.
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.
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 1:37:29 Mike Maples, Jr. You know, another good example back in the day was Don Estridge at IBM when they did the IBM PC, but it's almost always an autonomous business headed by Maverick and you're, you're trying to do something, uh, just
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.
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 29:19 David Senra And so they wound up making this agreement that Microsoft's gonna provide the software for IBM's PC.
- ▶ 31:54 David Senra Then it becomes publicly announced that IBM's building a PC and that Microsoft software is going to be running it.
Threads
- ▶ 2:27 Benedict Evans That's more like kind of comparing the Mac and the PC and the Commodore and the Altair and all that kind of stuff.
Dell Computers: Michael Dell (2018)
- ▶ 10:02 Michael Dell IBM introduced the IBM PC, and that was sort of a very important moment because if you dial back the clock to the late seventies and early eighties, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:41 Michael Dell So back then, the original IBM personal computers had no hard disk drives. 2 times in the scene
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 1:28:31 Jim Collins IBM is looking for an operating system for the IBM PC.
Belkin International: Chet Pipkin
- ▶ 21:17 Chet Pipkin It was one of our bigger, biggest orders ever for cables that went from the parallel port from an IBM PC to a, to an Epson printer, and they bought a hundred of these things. 2 times in the scene
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion (2019)
- ▶ 5:53 Rod Canion And I knew that the IBM PC was relatively unprotected.
- ▶ 8:12 Guy Raz And, and presumably they basically had to build something pretty similar to, to an IBM PC.
- ▶ 12:09 Rod Canion What we just stumbled onto is this pent-up demand for a portable version of the IBM PC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:37 Rod Canion You know, this idea that, uh, people could use all the same peripherals, all the same things that were designed and built to run in an IBM PC, whether it was software or hardware, would work on our computer. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
- ▶ 37:37 John Markoff And for, for me, the, the moment that I got, you know, my generation of Silicon Valley was slightly after the introduction of the IBM PC.
a16z Podcast | The Internet is His Religion
- ▶ 2:14 Jim Gilliam Um, they had a big facility there in Kingston, and they launched this, uh, uh, IBM, the IBM PC, the big answer to the Apple II computer, and, um, but they didn't have any software for it, so they had this big employee software program.
John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:09:42 John Preskill I remember how excited he was when he got his first IBM PC.
Dell Computers: Michael Dell
- ▶ 9:40 Michael Dell So, you know, when you would take apart the, you know, and something happened here around, uh, 1981, IBM introduced the IBM PC, and that was sort of a very important moment because if you dial back the clock to the late seventies and early… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:32 Michael Dell So back then, the original IBM personal computers 2 times in the scene
Edible Arrangements: Tariq Farid
- ▶ 15:42 Tariq Farid And this was a single IBM PC you would buy.
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion
- ▶ 5:30 Rod Canion And I knew that the IBM PC 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:49 Guy Raz And, and presumably they basically had to build something pretty similar to, to an IBM PC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:46 Rod Canion What we just stumbled onto is this pent-up demand for a portable version of the IBM PC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:14 Rod Canion You know, this idea that, uh, people could use all the same peripherals, all the same things that were designed and built to run in an IBM PC, whether it was software or hardware, would work on our computer. 2 times in the scene