Dell Turns 30: This Is What A $3,000 PC Was Like Back In 1984

[bohica]

Saturday (May 3) marks the 30th anniversary of Dell Computer. By any account, Michael Dell's life is an all-American success story.

In 1984, 19-year-old Michael Dell, a freshman at the University of Texas founded a computer business with $1,000. He called it PC's Limited. He had a game-changing idea to make computers low-cost, sell them through catalogs and (later) over the internet, and let people pick and choose the hardware they want.

Dell dropped out of college at the end of his freshman year to run his PC business full time. Today he's worth about $18 billion.



Dell created its own brand of computers and priced them starting at $795.

In 1989, He also created his own laptops. This is Dell's first laptop.



By 1991, at age 26, Dell's company was on the Fortune 100 and he was featured on the cover.

[icarus]

thanks for the info sir, nung magkaron ako ng computer shop ay kumuha ako ng isang unit ng dell, though second hand lang na 133Mhz ay masasabi ko na nakikipagsabayan sa 450Mhz na brand new unit

[jamesbond]

aba ayos ito ah... so matibay pala ang Dell brand ha... hmmm... galing ng share na ito... thanks thanks...

[naruto789544]

that is right sir jamesbond... i remember having my first pc way back 1994 and it was a dell unit.. it costed me around 50k for a vga monitor, cpu with 233 processor and 1mb dedicated vc, 256mb ram and 20gig hdd... it was the top of the line back then and was running on windows 3.1...  i had it for around 5 years then until lumabas na ung mga amd duron and pentium 1 series...