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He was born in born in February 23, 1965 In Houston Texas from Jewish family. Dell attended Herod Elementary School in Houston Texas.He applied to join in high school equivalency exam in early age when he was eight years old.while he was studying he invested his earnings from part-time jobs in stocks and precious metals. Dell purchased his first calculator at age seven and encountered his first teletype machine in junior high, which he programmed after school. T
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We design and build our first computer system, the Turbo PC featuring an Intel 8088 processor running at 8 MHz a 10 MB hard drive, and a5.25' floppy drive.
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We unveil the industry's fastest performing PC-a 12 MHz, 286-based system -at the Spring Comdex trade show.
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Dell completes its initial public offering, raising,$30million and increasing market capitalizantion from $1,000 to $ 85 million.
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Dell joins the mobile computing revolution with its First Laptop computer, the 316LT.
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We open a manufacturing center in Limerick.Ireland, to better serve custmers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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internationl sales more than double for the third consestive year.
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Dell debuts on the Fortune 500. Michael becomes the youngest CEO to lead a campany that receives this honor.
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By the end of the year, Dell is ranked No. 1 in PCs in the U.S , No 1 worldwide in PCs for large and medium businesses, and No 1 in worldwide workstation shipments.
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It's a year of firsts as Dell bbecomes the No. 1 computer systems provider worldwide,and reaches No.1 in U.S Intel-based server shipments. The Power Connect line of network switches launches Dell into the networking equipment market. We link an agreement with storage leader EMC to enable more affordoble enterdrice-class storage.
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We are the first in the industry to offer free product recycling for customers world wide. We revolutionize the way businesses connect with costumers with the launch of Direct 2 Dell ; a blog to enable fast direct, two- waay conversations with our custmers.
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The Vostro family becomes our flagship line of solutions tailored to small businesses. We ramp up our social media offers to connect with customers by joining Twitter-becoming the first public campany to launch an investor relations blog-and by launching Ideastorm.com a destiation where customers can post share ideas.
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We acquire ISCSI storge leader Equallogic, growing their orignal custmors base of 1,000 to 25,000 worldwide in the first two year.
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We acquire Perot systems and launch a new business called Dell servies that gives custmors end-to-end IT serviece to help lower their total cost of IT owwnership. Dell enters the smartphone market with the Mini 31 from Chhina Mobile.