 Early in his career, Hardy was the industrial designer of numerous award-winning IBM products, including the original IBM Personal Computer introduced in 1981.During the 1970s, he also designed advanced industrial design concepts for 'single user computers' during the infancy of personal computing.His work included a human-centered design model in 1973 to complement the IBM engineering prototype of SCAMP  dubbed by "PC Magazine" as "the world's first personal computer".