BBC Computer Literacy Project

Micro Live 2: Big Blue and the 40 Dwarves (11x7)

Uitzenddatum: Nov 22, 1985

IBM, known as Big Blue, is the largest computer company in the world, ten times the size of its nearest rival. Its first personal computer was so successful that it set a technical standard. Forty other manufacturers now use IBM standards in designing their machines. Ian McNaught-Davis finds out if, now they are embracing Big Blue's standards, the 40 Dwarves can get out of its clutches.