The First Computer War - IBM versus The UNIVAC | 3
Business Wars26 Huhti 2018

The First Computer War - IBM versus The UNIVAC | 3

What’s a 16% market share when the public thinks you have more? A potential anti-trust suit, if you’re IBM. Watson Jr. sees a potential lawsuit as a way out from under his father’s control. Sr. sees his company rotting away in the hands of a kid who can’t handle it. But when the antitrust suit comes through in 1952, Jr’s in charge. Can he actually handle the business he desperately wanted?


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The First Computer War - Betting the Store | 5

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The First Computer War - Abdication | 4

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The First Computer War - Father, Son, and The Future | 2

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The First Computer War - The Electronic Brain | 1

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With so much information at our fingertips, it’s hard to remember that we haven’t always walked around with supercomputers in our pockets. In fact, in 1952, CBS thought that Americans would find it SO...

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What's that? Up in the sky? It's another episode of Business Wars. Today we're talking to two super guests, Reed Tucker is a journalist living in New York City, and the author of the book Slugfest: In...

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Marvel vs DC - Big Screen Heroes | 5

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Appearances on radio programs, television shows and thousands of comic books - all just another day in the life of a superhero. But to get a larger than life hero onto a larger than life screen, there...

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