Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Want to know why we didn't make Dow 10,000 on our first run at it? Three letters: IBM.) There was a time in the mid-'90s when PC makers could count on ever more complicated applications requiring ever faster processors, causing consumers and businesses to upgrade PCs almost as often as Japan changed Prime Ministers. Sellers like Dell, Compaq, IBM, Gateway and Hewlett Packard got accustomed to 100% revenue-growth rates, while investors reaped heady returns: $1,000 invested in Dell in 1989 has grown to $640,000 today...
...Programmer Ward Christensen writes MODEM (modulator-demodulator), allowing PCs to talk over public phone lines...
...business are thinner than Bill Gates' smile. Why should any PC maker have to fix the zillions of problems that can arise when consumers install their own software? A few enlightened manufacturers, such as Dell, offer free lifetime support for any software shipped on their machines. As PCs become interchangeable--one box much the same as any other--consumers should choose a vendor on the basis of customer support...
...Oriental rug. To everyone's astonishment, the gifted young man from Grinnell, Iowa--a minister's son--achieved that goal in a decade. His integrated circuit, or microchip, not only helped rename an orchard-filled California valley but also led to a seemingly endless harvest of silicon devices, from PCs to coffeemakers...
REAL CHEAP PCS It doesn't seem that long ago that a good deal on a computer meant a new PC that sold for under a grand. Now the cheapest PC practically pays for itself. The $299 Webzter Jr. desktop from Microworkz Computer Corp. packs a surprisingly powerful punch with its 300-MHz Cyrix processor, 32 megabytes of memory and 3.2-gigabyte hard drive. Like every other sub-$1,000 PC, it comes without a monitor, but it does give you one year of free Internet service from Earthlink, a $240 value...