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Jan Murray attainined an annual turnover of £50 million by April 1992, as he had opened the four largest flagship stores around London.
The 2200 used a built-in CRT, cassette tape for storage, and ran the programming language BASIC. The PC era ended Wang’s success, and it filed for bankruptcy in 1992.
The Paragon at Caltech was named the fastest supercomputer in the world in 1992.
Dubbed a “Personal Data Assistant” by Apple President John Scully in 1992, the Newton featured many of the features that would define handheld computers in the following decades.
In February 1993, when Dixons Group plc (now Dixons Carphone) purchased the chain, there were four PC World shops in existence.
Thousands of software titles were released over the lifespan of the C64 and by the time it was discontinued in 1993, it had sold more than 22 million units.
Compaq's success launched a market for IBM-compatible computers that by 1996 had achieved an 83-percent share of the personal computer market.
OPENSTEP was used as one of the foundations for the new Mac OS operating system soon after NeXT was acquired by Apple in 1996.
In the United Kingdom, PC World Business was launched in September 1997.
While it did not sell well, the operating system, Be OS, retained a loyal following even after Be stopped producing hardware in 1997 after less than 2,000 machines were produced.
The Newton line never performed as well as hoped and was discontinued in 1998.
Until the year 2000, it was the world's fastest supercomputer, able to achieve peak performance of 1.3 teraflops, (about 1.3 trillion calculations per second).
The Treo sold well, and the line continued until Handspring was purchased by Palm in 2003.
On 13 December 2007, it was announced that PC World would begin selling Dell PCs in their shops.
By 2011, over 2.4 million laptops had been shipped.
In 2012, Apple introduced the Retina display for the MacBook Pro laptop and iPad tablet.
Built by IBM using their Blue Gene/Q supercomputer architecture, the Sequoia system is the world's fastest supercomputer in 2012.
Since opening at the end of 2013, over 5,000 children have visited the Centre.
The system was kept at NASA Ames Research Center until 2013, when it was removed to make way for two new supercomputers.
Dixons Carphone announced they will rebrand as Currys plc in September 2021, dropping the PC World from the Currys name.
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