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The attorney asked Billings to head up an effort to write the technical manuals for the PC startup.
The prospect of entering a new and growing industry was too tempting to pass up, and he accepted. Running the nascent company’s technical publication department, Billings headed a team of 40 writers producing “jillions” of technical manuals and instruction booklets.
From publishing technical materials for the company, Billings went on to become its worldwide director of marketing, communications and public relations.
“IBM introduced its PC,” Billings says, “and in those days there was a lot of security in the three letters IBM and not much security in anyone else’s name.”
Undaunted, Billings contacted a headhunter who got him in touch with another young computer company. He was sent to London to be general manager of the company’s British subsidiary while its initial public offering was being prepared in the United States. Initially the assignment was temporary?...