[CamperBob2]

In those days, you could throw a rock in a random direction and hit a talented engineer.

Still can, really.

Management talent, not so much.

[jhgb]

The kind of management talent that declined to build IBM PC hardware at exactly the time when it could have given them massive competitive advantage over companies making a similar mistake?

[CamperBob2]

That mistake came later, after the company was already extremely successful. Left up to the engineer alone, there wouldn't have been a company to fail.