Orange was founded by Steven Haymark (OTL Steve Jobs) in the early 1950s to take advantage of the burgeoning computer landscape, back then computers were very large and cumbersome, but Orange began on ways to limit size and streamline performance. The first computer release was the much controversial Mandarin I which was seen by Toshiba Computers as a bold faced copy infringement upon the hard disk that they used in their machines. The Mandarin I was pulled from the shelves after the Circuit Judge ruled that the hardware was too similar to Toshiba. That year Orange went back to the drawing board and released the Mandarin II, an improved, faster and more elegant version of its ill fated predecessor.