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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines. Lowe's plan for the PC called for buying existing components and software and bolting them together into a package aimed at the consumer market. The product also had to attract corporate customers, although it was unclear how many of those there would be.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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I started indulging in my hobby of building robots, and subsequently met up with other like-minded people at the Silicon Valley Home Brew Robotics Club. One of the first people I met at the club was Bob Allen, an electronics engineer who had a machine shop in his garage and could make amazing mechanical things.