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Alienware is
an American computer hardware company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Dell, Inc. It mainly produces desktops and laptops specialized for
video editing, audio editing, and gaming. Alienware
is also a producer of computer peripherals, such as headsets and
keyboards. The company is based in Miami, Florida, and was founded in
1966 by its CEO, Nelson Gonzalez, and COO, Alex Aguila.
Established in 1996, Alienware manufactures desktop, notebook, media center, and enterprise systems. According to employees, the Alienware name was chosen because of the founders' fondness for the hit television series The X-Files hence the theme to their products, with names such as Area-51 and Aurora.
Alienware was originally established to tap a niche in the high performance game market, which back then was not on the radar of the major PC manufacturers such as Dell. Since high-end game hardware was not widely distributed, the company's founders formed an OEM which sold personal computers with the highest performing hardware and settings according to benchmarks.
Established in 1996, Alienware manufactures desktop, notebook, media center, and enterprise systems. According to employees, the Alienware name was chosen because of the founders' fondness for the hit television series The X-Files hence the theme to their products, with names such as Area-51 and Aurora.
Alienware was originally established to tap a niche in the high performance game market, which back then was not on the radar of the major PC manufacturers such as Dell. Since high-end game hardware was not widely distributed, the company's founders formed an OEM which sold personal computers with the highest performing hardware and settings according to benchmarks.
Alienware
established its EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) headquarters
in Athlone, Ireland in October 2002. As of FY 2005, Alienware brought
in upwards of $170 million USD in annual sales, while undertaking an
international expansion initiative launched in 2003 to maintain a
presence in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom, and
Costa Rica.
Alienware has had a call center in Costa Rica to handle all sales and support calls for a number of years. Additionally, Alienware allows you to send in old computer hardware in exchange for credit towards new hardware.
Alienware has had a call center in Costa Rica to handle all sales and support calls for a number of years. Additionally, Alienware allows you to send in old computer hardware in exchange for credit towards new hardware.
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Zuse also claimed to have designed the first higher-level programming language, (Plankalkül), in 1945 (which was published in 1948) although it was implemented for the first time in 2000 by a team around Raúl Rojas at the Free University of Berlin – five years after Zuse died.
Zuse suffered setbacks during World War II when some of his machines were destroyed in the course of Allied bombing campaigns. Apparently his work remained largely unknown to engineers in the UK and US until much later, although at least IBM was aware of it as it financed his post-war startup company in 1946 in return for an option on Zuse's patents.
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