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Article: Leisure - Retro - Enterprise. Even great previews and an impressive specification doesn't guarantee success for a PC.
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- Personal Computer World
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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Byline: Gordon Laing.
The Elan team had a problem. After designing arguably one of the most powerful 8bit computers, delays in producing its custom chips had put the project 18 months behind schedule. Then to add insult to injury, they'd just lost a legal battle to use the name Elan - and this was after they'd already gone through a previous name change. Time was running out.
The computer that was finally launched as the Enterprise started life at IS (Intelligent Software), a company founded by David Levy in 1981. Levy was chairman, with partners Robert Madge and Kevin O'Connell working as head of technology and MD. Levy's experience as a chess ...