"The Gateway PC brand and its renowned cow-spotted boxes have been well-loved in the United States since 1985," said Jade Zhou, head of global strategic alliances for Acer. "... We are pleased ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CNN/Money) - Gateway ... big box stores like Best Buy and Circuit City, which allow customers to comparison shop. As a result, the company closed 80 of the black-and-white cow ...

a rented computer and a three-page business plan, they grew Gateway into a $10 billion company at its peak in 2000, with a global work force of 24,000 employees. Ted led a Holstein cow onto the ...

Gone are the famous spotted cow boxes. The FX6803 arrived in a much sleeker-looking box with ... and Gateway deserves credit in that respect. Among gamers, the Tier I PC manufacturers have a ...

And then I would call up the nice people at Gateway, and place my order over the phone (can you imagine?). A few weeks later a series of giant cow themed boxes showed up. You knew who had the best ...

With the acquisition, Acer will absorb a company founded in 1985 in an Iowa farmhouse and known for packaging computers in cow-spotted boxes. Now based in Irvine, Calif., Gateway struggled in ...

The funeral is today for one of the men who founded the Gateway Computer ... The company made built-to-order computers and eventually shipped them out in boxes with cow spots on them.

those who want the bang without the box, the wires and the cords. You may have seen the Profile computer on "ER" -- Gateway is aggressive in product placements. But it is the space-saving nature ...

The Gateway brand of computers began shipping directly to consumers a few years later. In 1991, the company started shipping its computers in distinctive containers decorated with cow spots.