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General Data company history timeline

1981

Earnings in fiscal 1981 fell from $55 million to $41 million.

1983

Data General's next personal computer, released in 1983, had the ability to run both standard PC software and some of the software that ran on the company's minicomputers.

1984

Sales temporarily rebounded in early 1984, up 40 percent, bringing revenues over the $1 billion mark.

1987

The following year, Data General suffered its first losses, which accelerated to $127 million in fiscal 1987.

1988

In 1988 Data General was continuing to close plants and lay off workers and was losing what share it had in the declining minicomputer market.

1990

In December 1990, before the AViiON could prove itself, the board of directors, apparently fed up with mounting losses for five straight years, removed de Castro from the chair and replaced him with Ronald Skates, who had already been CEO for two years.

1992

The company's latest product strategy introduced in late 1992 was data storage systems.

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