Dell Computers was founded by Michael Dell, who started selling personal computers out of his dorm room as a freshman at the University of Texas. Michael Dell would buy parts wholesale, assembled them into clones (exact replicas) of IBM computers, and sold them by mail order to customers who did not want to pay the higher prices charged by retailers. Michael Dell was soon making 80,000 dollars a month profit and in 1984 Michael dropped out of …showed first 75 words of 1671 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1671 total…while using the mail order system and the built to order systems to sell products. By making a profit they defied all odds that they would ever succeed against computer giants such as IBM, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard, using such unproven methods. Dell has succeeded in overtaking these major computer manufacturers in market share and will most likely increase their market share over the next ten years to become the premier computer manufacturer in the world.