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Dell Turns 30: This Is What A $3,000 PC Was Like Back In 1984 Saturday 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 Computer Michael Dell 1984 The year Dell launched his computer company, this is what a really cool IBM PC was. That slot on the side is for a floppy disk, the storage that came before thumb drives. www.old IBM PC AT 1984 In 1984, if you wanted a decent PC you were prepared to pay $3,000. IBM tried to launch a less expensive one, the PCjr, that cost $1,269, but the price didn't include a monitor and it had other problems. It didn't sell well. T.Robert Wyatt. 1984 IBM PC ad 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. Dell Dell's first laptop, the 316LT, 1989 By 1991, at age 26, Dell's company was on the Fortune 100 and he was featured on the cover. Fortune/Dell Today you can get a touch-screen laptop like this Dell Inspiron 11 3000, with 4G of RAM, a 500G hard drive, Wi-Fi, a couple of USB slots and HDMI slot for about $350. Dell More From Business Insider A Chinese Mathematician Figured Out How To Beat Anyone At Rock-Paper-Scissors This Is The Chart That Has Apple Analysts Drooling About The iPhone 6 Stop Embarrassing Yourself: Here's How To Wear Colors Without Clashing -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
