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Dell Donates Original Model of Computer to Smithsonian

Transport Topics, June, 2007 by Anonymous

WASHINGTON - Michael Dell never imagined his work would end up in a museum when he was sitting in his college dorm room in 1984, dreaming of building and selling his own personal computers.

Now, one of his original computers is going to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

The 42-year-old chairman and chief executive officer of Texas-based Dell Inc. donated a collection of materials to the Smithsonian, including his employee badge, one of the company's newest computers and a PC Limited computer from 1985.

The objects will join an Altair computer, a firstgeneration IBM PC and an original Apple Macintosh in the museum's collection.

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