Editing Clean-room design (section)

== In popular culture ==
* In the first season of the 2014 TV show '' [[Halt and Catch Fire (TV series)|Halt and Catch Fire]]'', a key plot point from the second episode is how the fictional Cardiff Electric computer company placed an engineer in a clean room to reverse engineer a BIOS for its PC clone, to provide cover and protection from IBM lawsuits for a previous probably-illegal hacking of the BIOS code others at the company had performed. It reminded many critics of [[Compaq| Compaq's]] million dollar clean-room engineering, but a contemporary, but far less successful company, [[Columbia Data Products]], also used such an approach.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=14Kfbrc6cbAC&pg=PA451 Aboard the Columbia], By Bill Machrone, Page 451, Jun 1983, PC Mag</ref> The reaction of IBM's legal department, like other plot points, echoed the experiences of [[Corona Data Systems]] more closely.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Price Cut Pressure on Compatible Makers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yS4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49|date=16 July 1984|journal=InfoWorld|pages=49|issn=0199-6649}}</ref>