ABSTRACT
Miraculously, in view of all the bickering, Hyundai Electronics America actually managed to produce a workstation complete with microcomputer and display it in a ribbon-cutting extravaganza at the Hotel Lotte, one of Seoul’s more prestigious meeting places, on October 7, 1983. Hyundai’s Korean plant, after all the hasty R&D on the part of the American designers, could now show off a capacity to produce four different types of computers, including one for color graphics. An added touch was the computers’ name, “Smart Alec,” suggested by a whimsical American consultant, connoting a self-deprecating modesty along with the know-how to undersell the competition.
