The prototype of this play is guessed, not to see Pei's face, but to see Pei's acting skills

Looking at the development history of Compaq, I personally think it is really similar, except that the three leading actors are capable, but they also have shortcomings. It is estimated that they can only start a business by complementing each other. An opportunity to found Compaq, the male protagonist is a closed-hearted but most capable person. Everyone says that Cameron is smart, really smart, and his EQ is not low, but I feel that many of them are broadcast to her by Joe, and she understands. If you look on the shoulders of giants, you will go further. If you continue to explore like her, you will still not be able to reach the top, especially if you don’t have natural leadership skills, it is impossible for a large company to reach the top because the company involves many fields. , sales, skills, development, at most, she can cover the sky in development and technology, sales is far from enough, and selling computers, there is definitely a need for this.
Forbes once said that Compaq's marketing genius "Mr. Pfeiffer is by no means paranoid, he is a calm management talent, as a Prussian, he relies on reason, science and hard work to bring Compaq to a high road. When When he is in the limelight, if you pay a little attention along his business trajectory, it is not difficult to find that Compaq is no longer the cheap computer assembler it used to be, and a new business model has emerged."
This is the This is a foreshadowing. Basically, the combination of one of the founders and this marketing genius is a portrayal of joe. I can also roughly predict the development of the subsequent plot. If it really follows this way, it really looks like Breaking Bad , belonging to the slow heat type.
The heroine and the second man may be a combined version of Rod Kenyon, Jem Harris, and Bell Mutro, and then this adaptation will make the characters fuller, make the three different abilities and support each other, and It's not just the three founders of Compaq who have the same ability to fight together. This is also the point of the drama's good intentions and its worth seeing. If the later plots are well filmed, they can actually be the same as Breaking Bad. It's a big hit, because it's a slow-moving drama, the plot is not an inspirational drama, because not everything in life can be successful, the key is to see if you fall, fail, and get hit hard, whether you can do it again and again Stand up, God knows how many blows and setbacks the three founders of Compaq encountered in those years, maybe their lives were threatened more than once, but they finally did it, and they succeeded, basically restoring the authenticity.
Bill Gates himself is basically a fan of the three founders of Compaq. Now Microsoft is sponsoring the show. It is estimated that it is like a master of sex. The plot is slow but it is thought-provoking. Not only the second season, I estimate this drama If the drama does not go wrong, there should be a third and fourth part.

(Turn) The three protagonists of this play correspond to the three founders of Compaq. The three prototypes all jumped out of the nest from Texas Instruments. Clark's wife Donna happens to be Texas Instruments, with strong hints. The three Compaq are The time when he came out to start a business in 1982 corresponds to the time when the male protagonist fled IBM. The play revolves around deciphering and manufacturing a portable computer compatible with IBM PC, but in reality Compaq is the first compatible personal portable computer (predecessor of notebook) recognized by IBM. The threat also shows the close relationship between the product and IBM before. In fact, the world's first portable computer was the Osborn I model manufactured by Osborn Computer Company in 1981. The male lead's personality and distinctive personal colors are quite similar to Osborn's. Personally, I think the male lead in the script is designed It must be a reference to Osborn, the inventor of the notebook. Basically, this play is a mixture of Osborn and Compaq. It is worth mentioning that in the second and third episodes, several shots were given to the Osborn I type, and Compaq's first PC product was It's the cottage Osborn.
The IBM PC was the result of IBM's attempt to gain a foothold in the home computer market dominated by the Apple II and Tandy's TRS-80. At that time, in addition to the above two kinds of computers, there were also a series of CP/M machines in the home computer market.
Since IBM's traditional design process had previously proved impossible to design cheap microcomputers (such as the failed IBM 5100), IBM decided to make an exception and set up a special team. The group was tasked with bypassing the company's rules to quickly deliver a market product. The project was code-named Project Chess.
The 12-person team, led by Don Estelich, developed the IBM PC in about a year. To achieve this they first decided to use off-the-shelf components from various OEMs. This approach is contrary to IBM's practice of developing its own components in the past. Second, they decided to use an open architecture so that other manufacturers could produce and sell compatible components and software. IBM also sells its IBM PC Technical Reference, which includes a section of ROMBIOS source code. [1][2]
Don Estelich's group initially considered the IBM 801 processor and the operating system developed for that processor at the IBM Research Laboratory in Yorktown Heights. The 801 processor is at least an order of magnitude more powerful than Intel's Intel 8088 processor, and its operating system is at least several years more advanced than Microsoft's DOS operating system, which was last selected. Ignoring IBM's internal solutions allowed the team to avoid many of the internal procedural processes that could have delayed its schedule, greatly reducing the difficulty of its work. But the final impact of this decision on IBM is very far-reaching.
Other manufacturers quickly reverse-engineered the BIOS's programs and developed their own, non-copyright copies.
In June 1982, Columbia Data Products introduced the first IBM PC-compatible machine.
In November 1982, Compaq Computer announced the development of the first IBM PC-compatible portable computer, the Compaq Portable (produced in March 1983).

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