DELL CORPORATION  Dell was born in West Houston and applied for a high school equivalency diploma at age eight. He ran a mail order stamp-trading business at age thirteen and sold subscriptions to the Houston Post by telephone at sixteen. Within a year he was named salesman of the month and was earning $18,000 annually for a direct-mail campaign he had targeted newlweds. He turned to electronics in his late teens, when he began building customized …showed first 75 words of 517 total…

…showed last 75 words of 517 total…In 1988 Dell Computer Corporation made an initial public offering of common stock. By late 1989 the company had 1,600 employees worldwide, had introduced its first 316LT laptop computer. Dell Computer Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, was appointed to the board of directors of the Foundation for the National Technology Medal, and was named Man of the Year by PC Magazine. In 1992 the company was named to the Fortune 500 list of the country's largest manufacturers.