William C. Lowe, the man behind the IBM PC, dies aged 72

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The man responsible for shepherding the original IBM PC to life in a single year, William C. Lowe, has died at 72. After he convinced then-CEO Frank Cary that such a machine couldn’t be built quickly “within the culture of IBM,” a team of 12 engineers called the “dirty dozen” was assembled under his …