As John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath : And then the dispossessed were drawn west-from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out.
Japanâs NTT to Buy Dell Systems for $3.055 Billion. NTT Data Corp., a unit of Japanâs former telephone monopoly, agreed to buy Dell Inc.âs information-technology services businesses for $3.06 billion as it expands sales outside Japan. The acquisition would be by far NTT Dataâs largest, increasing access to the U.S. and other foreign markets to counter sluggish economic growth at home.
The company was so successful that within two years PC's Limited had distribution offices in Europe, and changed it's grammatically-incorrect name to Dell Computer Corporation. By 1991, seven years after selling it's first computer, Dell Computer Corporation was listed in the Fortune 500. With much experience in mail order telephone sales, Dell was one of the first companies to offer computers for mail order via the Internet.