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Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home

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551 points adrianhon | 1 comments | 08 Apr 24 15:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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zitterbewegung ◴[08 Apr 24 18:16 UTC] No.39972348[source]▶
Interestingly enough the empire fell when the Vector 4 suffered the same fate of Commodore (albeit later) when the Vector 4 specs were leaked. Although, there were a few blunders on the wikipedia page but this was also indicative of the era during the IBM PC / DOS dominance.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Graphic

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1. garius ◴[08 Apr 24 18:54 UTC] No.39972631[source]▶
Yeah - one thing that didn't make the edit unfortunately was a few paragraphs on this. They'll make the book chapter though, when I write that.

It was one reason I wanted to tackle Osborne first in the series - because Vector did, quite legitimately, Osborne Effect themselves with the 4. Which absolutely didn't help.