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> They could do nothing about the IBM PC and they even knew that IBM was mimicing their business strategy, and yet there was nothing they could do Actually, th

> They could do nothing about the IBM PC and they even knew that IBM was mimicing their business strategy, and yet there was nothing they could do Actually, they could have done what one of the founders suggested, and actually did after leaving the company: create an IBM compatible system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Data_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Data_Systems

mintplant 11y ago
Reading through the "History" section, it doesn't seem like Corona fared well at all.
- asavadatti 11y ago
  At least he tried and failed instead of just giving up.
drfuchs 11y ago
I bought a PC-compatible from Corona circa 1983 after my extensive research showed it had better technology (and thus more of a chance of corporate survival) than the also-newly-created Compaq.
- kjs3 11y ago
  Yeah...I bought a PS/2 because of similarly flawed research.
- danmaz74 11y ago
  Yeah; just think if the same product had been sold by the well-known Vector Graphics brand :)