Word: tandon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makers of IBM-compatibles simply clone the features from the PC. Chatsworth, Calif.-based Tandon, which originally built disk drives for IBM, announced last week that it would begin marketing an IBM-compatible that features its own integrated circuit technology. Tandon, which expects to charge $1,155 for its new machine, is able to curb costs by manufacturing some of its components at plants in India...
...risk takers are immigrants who came to America to reap the benefits of its entrepreneurial climate. Sirjang Lai Tandon, 39, left his native India in 1960. In 1975 he founded a firm that makes disc drives for personal computers that are sold by Radio Shack and other companies. Last year his firm had sales of $54.2 million. Jesse I. Aweida, 50, the Palestinian-born founder of Storage Technology in Louisville, Colo., turned the computer memory company into a $922 million-a-year business. Both Altos Computer Systems in San Jose, Calif., and Osborne Computer Corp. in Hayward, Calif., were founded...