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You'll find versions of this story all over business history.

Sometimes the competition looks a lot more intimidating from a distance than it does in bits and pieces on the workbench.

workbench.In September 2002, Roomba finally goes on sale.

The product debuts at Brookstone, The Sharper Image, and Hammacher Schlemmer.

Priced at just $199, it offers something consumers have wanted for decades, a real-life Rosie from The Jetsons.

Hyperion have contested it.

Hyperion are the people who've carried on making Workbench all these years.

So there's, like Workbench 3.2, 3.3, 4.

I don't know whether they did four.

It's all really complex and convoluted.

Mm

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Workbench and Amiga are now all owned by like one, one person.

Well, thanks to ACL Race Earrings, the best bearings that you can get.

It's time for us to go on the workbench here with James Moffat.

You've had pretty good form actually on the workbench so far this year.

I've been okay.

You've been pretty

So you've done well.

He's done well, hasn't he, again? You're on the undercut with thanks to ACL.

That's the workbench here.

All right.

Let's jump back here to Workbench.

I know, Rob, we've already asked you what you had on your Workbench, but what a lot of people don't know is you've also got your own YouTube channel that you feature a lot of what you painted and what you work on, because you do have some amazing models.

Can you tell us about that, please, sir?

Yeah, man.

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