ACT tried to catch up. On a sunny winter morning in 1986, Mr. Foster announced at a fortnightly R&D meeting that no more Apricot-compatible machines would be made; the industry trend toward IBM was to be followed, belatedly. People at the meeting recall a hushed silence descending over the room. "The entire R&D staff could have walked out," says John Leftwich, a former colleague who attended the meeting, and is now marketing chief for Microsoft in Europe. "The fact that none left and all knuckled down to the new job speaks a lot about loyalty" to Mr. Foster, he adds.
ACT tried to catch up. On a sunny winter morning in 1986, Mr. Foster announced at a fortnightly R&D meeting that no more Apricot-compatible machines would be made; the industry trend toward IBM was to be followed, belatedly. People at the meeting recall a hushed silence descending over the room. "The entire R&D staff could have walked out," says John Leftwich, a former colleague who attended the meeting, and is now marketing chief for Microsoft in Europe. "The fact that none left and all knuckled down to the new job speaks a lot about loyalty" to Mr. Foster, he adds.
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