Steve Flannigan – MRQE https://mrqe.com Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:48:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png Steve Flannigan – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 Silicon Cowboys https://mrqe.com/movie/silicon-cowboys-m100116704/ Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/silicon-cowboys-m100116704/ Launched in 1982 by three friends in a Houston diner, Compaq Computer set out to build a portable PC to take on IBM, the worlds most powerful tech company. Many had tried cloning the industry leaders code, only to be trounced by IBM and its high-priced lawyers. Explore the remarkable David vs. Goliath story, and eventual demise, of Compaq, an unlikely upstart who altered the future of computing and helped shape the world as we know it today.

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