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Well, it's assumed that if IBM enters a market, they take over and push everybody out.

In February of 1984, IBM introduces their own portable into the market.

Our orders stopped because before it actually was introduced, they were showing it to dealers and customers, and they just stopped ordering ours.

That was a very, very life-threatening situation.

We had this factory running full speed, and no place to go.

From NPR, it's how I built this.

A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Ross, and on today's show, How Rod Canyon's personal computer startup compact, took on the biggest computer company in the world, and won.

So if you have a PC at home or at work, and you buy some software like Word or TurboTax, it doesn't really matter if you have a Dell or an HP or a Toshiba, because if it's a PC, it will run PC software.

And that makes perfect sense, right?

But believe it or not, in the 1980s, in the early days of personal computers, that is not how it worked.

If your computer was, say, an IBM, well, you needed software written for an IBM.

An IBM was the biggest player by far.

In fact, some people thought that IBM would eventually crush all of the competition and become the only PC maker.

But all of that changed when Rod Canyon started compact. Now, Rod wasn't your typical restless entrepreneurial guy.

In fact, he had a good and stable job at Texas Instruments as an electrical engineer, and he was pretty happy there.

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