2.7 Offers They Couldn't Refuse

One day the mob wants your quarters, the next day IBM lobbies your business into dust. It's a wonder anything got done in the industry at all.

Chapters

• 0:00 Opening
• 0:57 The laundry business
• 4:02 The new tunes
• 6:15 Alternative uses
• 11:25 Elmwood Park
• 15:25 Jukeboxes to video games
• 19:07 Video gamblers
• 21:22 Let's go legal and play pachinko
• 26:18 Patent or copyright
• 32:00 The farce of software patents
• 39:40 Lucky games, unlucky developers
• 42:36 IBM goes micro-ish
• 45:56 5150
• 49:56 The CP/M heist
• 53:22 Enter stage, followed by jackals
• 55:32 Apple vs Ace
• 59:30 Exibit A: The Easter Egg
• 1:03:15 The rise of closed source
• 1:04:18 The BIOS trap
• 1:07:05 Compaq builds a wall
• 1:12:11 It gets better/worse
• 1:14:22 Sega's worst Trip
• 1:17:10 Not winning any Accolades
• 1:19:44 Wrap-up