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 envy of CEOs everywhere. By early 1985, at the age of twenty, Dell had thirty employees working for him. During the summer of that year, the company began producing the Turbo PC, its first computer made entirely from scratch, rather than a customized version of another company's machine. In 1987 Dell changed the name of the company from PCs Unlimited to Dell Computer Corporation. At that time he began a program offered by no one else in the industry: rather than having customers bring broken-down computers to a store for repair, Dell Computer would pay house calls to service its customers' PCs.