Nixdorf Computer AG (1952 - 1990)

heinz nixdorf started a lab in essen in 1952 with borrowed money and built it into the fourth largest computer company in europe on one idea, which was that a small machine belongs in the office doing the work instead of in a rented machine room somewhere else. by 1985 the company turned over four billion marks with twenty three thousand people in forty four countries. nixdorf died at cebit in…