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It's worse than that: he was the ex-COO from Gateway (not Dell). They were essentially a Dell wannabe that was even more poorly run.
by blihp 7y ago
It's worse than that: he was the ex-COO from Gateway (not Dell). They were essentially a Dell wannabe that was even more poorly run.
- tehjoker 7y agoThanks for the correction.
- paypalcust83 7y agoGateway 2000 -1998 name change-> Gateway -2007 acquisition-> Acer eMachines -2004 acquisition-> Gateway Wikipedia is wrong: not Gateway in 2000, but 1997 saw several sub-$1k computers, and possibly the first was the Compaq Presario powered by the Cyrix MediaGX. I recall taking some community college computer course in sophomore(10)/junior(11) year of high school about 1994 and the lecturer predicting the sub-$1k computer. https://www.cnet.com/news/the-secret-history-of-the-sub-1000-computer https://www.cnet.com/news/the-secret-history-of-the-sub-1000...