First Product Of These Famous Companies Was Not What It Is Known For

By Ashish Ranjan, 2 December 2017

7 Samsung

Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chull in 1938. Lee Byung-chull was son of a rich landlord. But, Samsung was fully established in the year 1969. Its first product was a 12-inch Black-and-White television (model- P3202) which was launched in the year 1972. The company had started the domestic sales of television in 1972.

 

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8 Lenovo

Lenovo had first launched its product as Chinese character card. The card’s main job was to translate English language operating system into Chinese language. The product was named as legend286. Due to this product, the company was given National Award. Afterwards, Lenovo sold its computers all across the world. It also supplied many devices to other companies. 

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9 Apple

The first product of Apple was named as Apple 1. It was designed and assembled by Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak in the garage of Steve Jobs in 1976. Earlier, there were only a few buyers of this product. Its earlier buyers included Paul Terrell who was owner of the retail store Electronics retailer Byte. He bought 50 devices of Apple 1 and sold each one of them at a price of $666.66. After seeing its success, Jobs and Wozniak had assembled 150 more devices. 

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10 Dell

Dell (old name- PC’s Limited) had first made a 10 megabyte personal computer, Turbo PC in 1985 which was priced at $795. Its special features had impacted the price of expensive IBM machines. In 1988, the company had changed its name to Dell Computer Corp. 

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