Strategic Challenges and Technical Missteps in the Microcomputer Market

Lore Harp McGovern was one of the most influential women in the history of computing, but her story, and her company, haven’t been given their due. Harp McGovern spurned the life of a housewife and built a multimillion-dollar personal computer company, called Vector Graphic, from scratch. 

In this essay, published first on Every and now adapted for audio, writer Gareth Edwards tells the story of Harp McGovern, who took Silicon Valley by storm in the 1970s, and makes a convincing case for why she should be remembered as a founding mother of the computer age t

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