The mail-order computer giant with the cow-spotted boxes — started in a farmhouse near Sioux City.
Gateway was founded in 1985 by Ted Waitt and Mike Hammond in a farmhouse on the Waitt family's cattle ranch near Sioux City, Iowa, selling built-to-order personal computers by mail.
Its Holstein cow-spot boxes — a nod to its Iowa farm roots — became a national trademark as Gateway 2000 grew into one of the country's largest PC makers before later moving its headquarters out of the region.
Gateway's farmhouse-to-Fortune-500 rise is one of Iowa's great business stories, and its cow-spot branding kept the state's agricultural image on tech-store shelves nationwide.
The company put Sioux City on the map of the 1990s personal-computer boom.
Gateway is based in Sioux City, Iowa. Grew into a national PC brand; acquired by Acer in 2007
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Ted Waitt & Mike Hammond — co-founders (1985), in a farmhouse near Sioux City
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