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Dell Computers: Michael Dell (2018)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

CHAPTER

How Did You Find Customers?

Back in 19 83, 19 84, there weren't very many people that had personal computers at the time. The original i b m personal computers had no hard disdrives. So what i would do is i would buy a controller card and write some software to make a hard disdrive system for an ibium computer. And then instead of to a hundred and 60 k or 320 k floppy drives, it would have a ten gabite hard drivech at the time was something amazing. How did you even know who to sell these two? I bit on state contracts.

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