#History - DON'T MISS OUT READING THIS..
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The INDIAN SPORTSPERSON who wanted to started IC Manufacturing.
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Vijay Amritaraj the famous Indian TENNIS STAR of 80s and 90s - and his family founded Sterling Electronics Pvt Ltd in 1980s ( I think 1983) and got the license to manufacture Integrated Circuits (IC) in Hosur, Dharmapuri.
Setup a factory but some reasons the production did not start and the company was in a loss. It however had import license for getting equipment and part of the license was for import of computers for use in R&D.
Amritaraj family was looking to close the company. At the same time, in USA - Osborne was a popular portable computer but the company went bankrupt and had unsold inventory.. with no takers.
A smart maverick businessman - Mr. C.Sivasankaran entered the scene. He bought out Sterling Electronics at a very low price.. and used the license to import Osborne Computers at literally throwaway prices something like flea market rates.
And the Portables sold like hot cake in 1984 & 1985.. - with huges profits - he got into assembling and selling IBM compatible PCs.

in 1985 there were only handful computer companies - HCL, Wipro, IDM, Zenith, Usha, Sunray and Sterling.
PCs (with 2 floppy drive 5.25" - Green Phosporous monitor 80x24 - 80 characters and 24 rows.. - purely text based OS - MSDOS Operating system) were available and PC-XT - with 1/2 floppy drivers and 10/20 MB (yes. mega bytes) - hard disk.
Other companies were selling PCs at a price of - hold your breadth - Rs.1 Lakh and above.

Mr. Sivasankaran company started selling the PCs branded as SIVA PC - at -- again hold your breadth deeply - just Rs.29900/- including taxes. That was sometime in 3rd/4th Quarter of 1985.
And then the whole market changed. It was such a shakeout - and PCs became affordable for LARGER Companies and Medium Size companies..

It is SIVA that is the pioneer of Personal Computers in India - without any R&D Team, just a bunch of employees mostly Diploma holders -
the company bet on low price, quick delivery and large volume and very reliable technology - i.e Screw Driver Technology (just assemble and sell).

I joined Sterling Electronics on 1st June 1986.. and began my journey in IT Industry.
Just imagine - if Vijay Amritaraj had somehow started manufacturing ICs - he would have become one of the richest in the world. Billionaire by several times.
Infact Samsung came into IC manufacturing little later so were few companies in Taiwan - all turned out to be successful
LUCK, KISMAT.. FATE.. DESTINY.. and KARMA.. - all have meaning and exist..

Amritaraj family became US citizens and got into hollywood film distribution and even produced few films.

What happened to C.Sivasankaran. A long and interesting story.. For later...

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