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Philip Donald Estridge (June 23, 1937 – August 2, 1985), known as Don Estridge, was an American computer engineer who led development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC), and thus is known as the "father of the IBM PC".
Estridge led the team developing IBM’s PC at its Boca Raton office, using third-party hardware and software to an extent unprecedented within “Big Blue.” Estridge died in a plane crash three years after the PC’s introduction, but after more than a million had been sold.
7 cze 2024 · The titular character is Don Estridge, a decidedly atypical IBM employee who was instrumental in creating the personal computer market as we know it. It’s not that IBM invented the personal...
14 cze 2024 · From IBM’s backwater offices in Boca Raton, Florida, Don Estridge ushered in the era of personal home computers. He was a corporate misfit who broke all of the company’s rules in order to change the world.
5 cze 2024 · This is the story of Don Estridge, the man who brought the IBM PC to market and changed business and home computing forever. In just five years he created an IBM division that almost nobody else in the company wanted to exist.
His efforts began in at IBM Main Site in Boca Raton, Florida around 1980 with a team of just 14 people and a revenue base of zero. By the time he gave up leading IBM's PC division (known then as Entry Level Systems) in 1985, the division had 10,000 employees and annual revenue of $4.5 billion.
20 gru 2004 · And the IBM PC owes its existence to one Don Estridge. What brought this to mind? Recently, we at The Tolly Group completed our relocation to Boca Raton, Fla. Our facility is not much more...
