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Two former Atari executives, Roger Badertscher and Bruce Irvine, were determined to create a different kind of personal computer. They raised $4m in investment to create the Mindset Corporation in Silicon Valley. The startup focused on computer products for what it called ‘the productivity/creativity market’. The new PC was to be built by a dozen ex-Atari marketing and engineering staff including engineer Ajay Chopra:

A long time before Windows, we wanted to create a fast platform to run graphical applications like games (which we understood from Atari) on one hand but also graphic arts, what Photoshop is today and also CadCam applications.

The Mindset team worked to create custom chips for an IBM compatible PC platform that it believed was able to run applications at a speed 50 times faster than that of its MS-DOS competitors.