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The following year, Bob founded Corona Data Systems [0], which created one of the first IBM PC clones.

One of their ads is titled "The Apple vs. IBM debate is over. Meet the Winner." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Data_Systems

[1] https://imgur.com/a/aDe5mkD

One of those was the first PC I owned.

The compatibility comment in the article was interesting. There was definitely a period when bug for bug PC compatibility was not widely appreciated by a lot of companies because it hadn't historically been a thing. Even Corona had a weird one-off monochrome graphics mode that basically no one supported (and made it incompatible with add-on graphics cards like Hercules).

I think it's also easy for people to forget that in, say, 1982 if you were shopping for a computer a PC clone wasn't necessarily the obvious choice.

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