Open Quotes

“We have another problem. We don’t have much warehouse space. So if the dealers wait too long to start ordering, we won’t have a place to put the finished computers.” I ask, “Can we rent additional space somewhere?” Vieau answers, “We can try, and in the meantime we can store some in 18-wheeler trailers.” And store them in trailers we did. Before we were through, there were almost twenty trailers parked in various locations around Houston.”
― Rod Canion, Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing

“Some of the incompatibilities could not be corrected without Microsoft’s help. When we asked Microsoft to fix those incompatibilities for which we didn’t have the source code, we feared that our request would be turned down or at least acted on slowly because of their relationship with IBM. We learned, however, that Microsoft was happy to work with us and have our help in identifying problems and verifying fixes.”
― Rod Canion, Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing