Gateway, Inc.
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Gateway, Inc., previously Gateway 2000, Inc., was an American computer company originally based in Iowa and South Dakota. Founded by Ted Waitt and Mike Hammond in 1985, the company developed, manufact
Site of former headquarters in North Sioux City, South Dakota, pictured in 2023
Loading dock of Gateway's former headquarters in North Sioux City. Note the black splotch in the far-left end; the entire complex was once painted white with black splotches, in keeping with the company's corporate identity.
A pizza-box form-factor desktop computer manufactured by Gateway, circa mid-1990s
Gateway HandBook, subnotebook computer manufactured beginning in 1992
Escom AG
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Escom AG was a German computer company, best known as the successful purchaser of Commodore International and the Amiga trademarks in 1995.
Gateway, Inc.
…vetoed the acquisition that summer. Gateway 2000 themselves acquired two companies in the year, the first being the Amiga Technologies subsidiary of Escom AG, a German company that had filed for bankruptcy in the preceding year. Announced in March 1997, the deal was finalized in the following May, with Amiga…
Escom Greymate 486 laptop