Did Dr. Marc Dean Design the IBM PC or was it Lewis Eggebrecht

[Christian Liendo]

From: Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com>
To: Christian Liendo <christian_liendo at yahoo.com>; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> 
Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: Did Dr. Marc Dean Design the IBM PC or was it Lewis Eggebrecht



>From: Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com>> I think you're mixing Lew with Don Estridge.  Don's team (of which Lew and Marc were part) were the "winning" team.  The other teams were *not* in Boca as I recall.


>From PC News:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Pq3POofPsBEC&lpg=PA62&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=true 
"Lew Eggebrecht was the Chief Architect for the IBM PC. He picked all the parts and put them together"


>From The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/12/ibm_pc_30_anniversary/
"A 12-strong team was assembled under Don Estridge, the Development Director of the project, codenamed 'Chess'. Lewis Eggebrecht was brought on board as Chief Designer."

History of the Personal Computer

http://archive.org/stream/A_History_of_the_Personal_Computer/eBook09_djvu.txt

"Lewis Eggebrecht was a principal in the systems engineering design"



So. I mean. I believe you, just a lot of people point to him