Gateway, Inc. (NYSE: GTW) is an Irvine, California-based computer company founded in 1985 by Ted Waitt. Originally called Gateway 2000, it was one of the first widely successful direct order companies, utilizing a sales model similar to that of Dell, and playing up its South Dakota roots with low-tech advertisements and shipping computers in spotted boxes patterned after cow markings (specifically, those of Holstein cows). In line with the Holstein cow mascot, Gateway opened a chain of retail stores called Gateway Country Stores in mostly suburban areas across the United States. It dropped the "2000" from its name in 1998. Gateway logo, claiming fair use This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... Image File history File links Gw2klogo2. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), also nicknamed the Big Board, is the largest stock exchange in the world (by dollar volume) and second largest by number of listings. ... Nickname: Motto: Official website: http://www. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 402. ... A computer is a machine capable of undergoing complex calculations. ... This article is about the year. ... Ted Waitt is the founder and chairman of Gateway Computers. ... Dell, Inc. ... Official language(s) English Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 17th 199,905 km² 340 km 610 km 1. ... COW is an acronym for a number of things: Can of worms The COW programming language, an esoteric programming language. ... For other uses of the word, see Holstein Holstein Cows The Holstein, or Friesian as it is known in the UK, is a cattle breed used in dairy farming. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Gateway struggled after the dot-com bust and tried several strategies to return to profitability, including withdrawal from international markets, reduction in the number of Country Stores, and most significantly, entering the consumer electronics business. None of these efforts were particularly successful, and Gateway continued to lose market share and suffered major losses. Dot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. ...

On January 30, 2004, Gateway purchased low-cost PC maker eMachines, in hopes that its outsourced manufacturing process would help Gateway cut costs and that eMachines' profitable retail business would help its bottom line. Gateway announced its intention to keep the eMachines brand. By April 1, 2004, Gateway had announced that it would shut down its 188 remaining stores. The last day of operations for the stores was April 9, 2004. January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... eMachines was a maker of low-cost home PCs based in Irvine, California. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Despite its more low tech image, Gateway has long outsourced some of its operations (such as customer support) Gateway produced its last U.S. built computer at its North Sioux City plant in 2004.

Gateway also used to make various electronics, such as the popular plasma screen TVs, digital cameras, LCD projectors, wireless internet routers, MP3 players, etc. Gateway has slowly faded all of these products out. A plasma display is an emissive flat panel display where light is created by phosphors excited by a plasma discharge between two flat panels of glass. ... A SiPix digital camera next to a matchbox to show scale. ... This article describes the computer networking device. ... A hard-drive-based player (Apple iPod) An MP3 CD player (Philips Expanium) A flash-based player (iBox Mediaman) A digital audio player (DAP) is a device that stores, organizes and plays digital music files. ...

Gateway competes with the likes of Dell, Inc., HP/Compaq, Lenovo, Sony, Toshiba and Acer Dell Inc. ... ... Compaq was a personal computer company founded in 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto. ... Lenovo Group Limited, formerly known as Legend Group Limited, is the largest personal computer manufacturer in the Peoples Republic of China, and as of 2004 is the eighth largest in the world. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Toshiba Corporation (東芝, Tōshiba) (TYO: 6502) is a Japanese high technology electrical and electronics manufacturing firm, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. ... Acer can refer to one of the following: For the company named Acer, see Acer (company). ...

Gateway bought Amiga computer assets in 1997. In 2000, Gateway sold the Amiga brand. The original Amiga (1985) The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced game console. ...

For tech support, Gateway has a contract with Alorica to provide the technical support manpower. Alorica is a telecommunications company tha specializes in call centers. ...

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