Data General Corporation


Instant Start-Up

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Mar 1, 1992

When Data General cut-back their pet project, two former employees took their work formed HyperDesk Corp.  Read story

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Apr 1, 1985

Anyone who doubts that the rally to record highs in the first quarter of 1985 was speculative in nature has only to check the characteristics of the leadi...  Read story

Busting The Trustbusters

By STEVEN PEARLSTEIN |  Apr 1, 1986

Independent businesspeople voted in droves for Ronald Reagan. Now Reagan proposes that fewer businesspeople be independent.  Read story

Read This Box, Save $5,000,000

Feb 1, 1987

The seeds of every company's demise are contained in its business plan, says Fred Adler. The trick is finding them.  Read story

Office Technology;

By Reported by Patricia C. Amend |  Aug 1, 1987

The laptop computer has never lived up to its potential as a tool for traveling executives, thanks mainly to its unlighted liquid-crystal display (LCD) sc...  Read story

Gearing Up

By Ellyn E. Spragins |  Oct 1, 1989

A start-up saves money and time by obtaining equipment through a venture leasing deal.  Read story

How To Avoid The Pitfalls Of Computer Contracts

By Dennis S. Deutsch |  Jun 1, 1981

If your hardware or software package doesn't live up to expectations, you may have a legal problem.  Read story

The Soul Of A New Entrepreneur

By J.H. |  Dec 1, 1984

When Robert Downs tries to pry money out of a venture capitalist, he doesn't perform the usual song and dance. Instead, he wows them with the unusual fac...  Read story

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Dec 1, 1983

On the first anniversary of 1982's spectacular market launch, stocks were on their way down. But the nature of any market -- bull or bear -- is to correct...  Read story

What Business Would You Start?

By Joshua Hyatt |  Nov 1, 1994

Nearly 50 business luminaries, ranging from H. Ross Perot to Ed McMahon, are asked what businesses to start.  Read story

In Search Of The Above Average

By PAUL B. BROWN |  Jul 1, 2001

Tom Peters got us all hot for excellence. But when we strive to achieve it, a new book argues, we're prone to certain pitfalls.  Read story

Supercomputer Surge

By Teri Lammers |  Oct 1, 1992

Start-up focuses on the supercomputer market.  Read story

The Buyout Beat Goes On

By Craig Waters |  Aug 1, 1983

When we last checked in with Leonard Shaykin, he was the head of Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd.'s leveraged buyout (LBO) unit and an enthusiastic proponent...  Read story

The Business Owner's Bookshelf

By Inc Staff |  Apr 1, 2009

30 books you should read and put to use  Read story

Network: August 1990

By Inc Staff |  Aug 1, 1990

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

The Tie That Binds

By Abby Solomon |  Nov 1, 1983

Microcomputer to mainframe and micro to mini communications are hot topics today -- with good reason. For many growing companies, these links could provide a...  Read story

The Equity Partnership As A Seed For Start-ups

By Michael Geczi |  Dec 1, 1982

Since the limited partners get the early losses, they demand less equity from founders at the time of tax-free conversion.  Read story

The Third Wave

By Joel Kotkin |  Feb 1, 1984

U.S. entrepreneurs are filling new niches in the semiconductor industry.  Read story

The Hottest Entrepreneur In America Is The "smart Team" At Compaq Computer

By Joel Kotkin |  Feb 1, 1986

Companies like Compaq are emerging from the high-tech shakeout stronger than ever. Their secret: avoiding the one-man shown. Is there a lesson here for the r...  Read story

Eight Problems A Computer Can't Solve

By Sheila M. Eby |  Mar 1, 1982

Computers are pretty smart, but like everyone else, they have their limitations.  Read story

Where Really Bad Ideas Come From

By Ron MacLean |  Oct 15, 1998

Before starting the companies that made the 1998 Inc. 500, many CEOs pursued dubious business concepts that ultimately bombed. Here are the lessons ...  Read story

Tandem Has A Fail-safe Plan For Growth

By Susan Benner |  Jun 1, 1981

If Jim Treybig has his way, his computer company will get bigger without losing its enterpreneurial style.  Read story

Private Lives

By R.A.M. |  Dec 1, 1982

Microcomputers, welding equipment, wheelcharis, prefabricated churches, and five other businesses earned their companies a spot on this year's INC. 500.  Read story

The Leveraged Buyout Boom

By Craig R. Waters |  Sep 1, 1983

It was too perfect a symbol, too convenient a metaphor to slip into the first paragraph of a story about leveraged buyouts, but there it was, sitting on t...  Read story

Every Employee An Entrepreneur

Apr 1, 1984

It seems an unusual soruce for the most provocative information about small and medium-size companies to emerge in the 1980s: McKinsey & Co., one of t...  Read story

A Worm In Apple?

By Joshua Hyatt |  Feb 1, 1985

While researching his new book on Apple Computer Inc., author Michael Moritz found the company's co-founder, Steven Jobs, to be the strong, silent type --...  Read story

Peaks And Valleys

May 1, 1985

Venture capitalist Don Valentine scaled the entrepreneurial heights as a key investor in Apple Computer, Altos Computer Systems, and Tandem. Now, amidst unce...  Read story

The Enemy Within

By Anne Murphy |  Mar 1, 1994

Employees run their own businesses and compete against each other at Spectrum Associates.  Read story

Friday The 13th

By Vin McLellan |  Oct 1, 1983

The call came from IBM offering Martin Alpert a deal that could give his company a lock on its market. But he wasn't celebrating.  Read story

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