The First Computer War - Computing Gets Personal | 6
After all that IBM has been through over the decades, it would have never in a million years guessed that their undoing would be at the hands of a scrawny and unknown computer nerd named Bill Gates. G...
8 Maj 201826min
The First Computer War - Betting the Store | 5
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, employing 1,...
3 Maj 201824min
The First Computer War - Abdication | 4
In Episode 1 the UNIVAC successfully predicted that Eisenhower would win the 1952 election. In Philadelphia, a champagne hangover quickly settled in over the Remington Rand building, the company elate...
1 Maj 201825min
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 h...
26 Apr 201823min
The First Computer War - Father, Son, and The Future | 2
How do you really “get ahead” in a war? Sometimes you don’t have to do anything, you just wait for your opponent to fumble.And in the late 1940s, IBM’s CEO Thomas Watson Sr., did. He’s just beginning ...
24 Apr 201824min
The First Computer War - The Electronic Brain | 1
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...
19 Apr 201822min
Marvel vs DC - Interview with Jason Mewes and Reed Tucker | 7
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...
12 Apr 201843min
Marvel vs DC - The Cinematic Universe | 6
After more than 50 years of fighting for the hearts and attention spans of millions of readers, television viewers, and movie-goers - who wins this war? Is it DC, the original comic company company be...
10 Apr 201826min
