2016 | Feature | 1h 17m

Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know.

  • Director Jason Cohen

  • Writers Jason Cohen, Steven Leckart

  • Executive Producers Jason Cohen, Samantha Housman

  • Producers Ross M. Dinerstein, Glen Zipper

  • Co-Producers Lydia Dunham, Steven Leckart

  • Cinematographer Svetlana Cvetko

  • Editor Jake Pushinsky

  • Composer Ian Hultquist

Based on Rod Canion's book, Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing