Former IBM employee William C. Lowe has died aged 72, following a heart attack. Mr. Lowe was in charge of an IBM laboratory in Florida in the mid-Seventies when he came up with the idea of selling small computers to businesses and homes. After his suggestion that IBM collaborate with Atari to get things done was dismissed, he was given the green light to create a prototype. This became the IBM PC. Whilst the IBM PC was a huge success initially, other manufacturers soon copied the hardware, thanks to William's belief in open architecture. Sadly, he copped a lot of the blame for this. Considering just about all games are soon going to be aimed at platforms with the IBM PC as their ancestors, we have a lot to thank William for as gamers! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24725678 RIP William - thanks for bringing computing to the masses!
