Gateway from a barn to the cow box

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News that Gateway will stop direct consumer sales prompts the brothers to remember a company that began with two brothers in a South Dakota barn, became a multibillion-dollar force and turned cow-pattern boxes and mouse pads into a recognizable signal that someone knew computers. The recollection captures both the speed of the PC industry's rise and the sadness of watching an emblematic brand recede.

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Proposed recording date: 2008-07-26. The exact broadcast date may differ.

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