The Garage Computer Company, 1976
Two friends, a garage in California and a circuit board nobody else can build as cheaply. Fourteen years from hobby kits to a public company — the investor, the all-in-one machine, the giant arriving and the boardroom fight. Based on a well-known true story.
It is 1976. Your partner has designed a computer on a single board and you have sold a van and a calculator to pay for the parts. A local computer shop wants fifty. Everything that follows really happened to a company like yours: the retired executive who invests and writes the plan, the all-in-one machine that steals the computer fair, the spreadsheet that makes accountants buy computers, the biggest public offering in decades, the mainframe giant entering the market, a $10,000 machine nobody buys, an advert shown once, and a board that sides with the CEO you hired. You play every desk alone, a year at a time, from 1976 to 1989. The choices are the founder's: how hard to chase businesses versus homes and schools, when to open in Europe and Japan, what to pay for the disk-drive design or a national chain of computer stores, and whether the friendly machine is worth a fortune in advertising. Based on a well-known true story; the companies and people here are composites, and no real…
$5.00 a seat · 14 simulated years, decided yearly · by SparkTower.