Quick, Name Five Taiwanese Pc Makers

Taiwan's Tatung Corp. saw the handwriting on the wall a few years ago. Building PCs and peripherals for companies such as IBM and Toshiba to sell under their brand names was a losing proposition: Most of the profits went to the guy whose name was on the box--not to the guy who built it.

Tatung, the country's No. 1 computer maker, wasn't alone. By the late 1980s, most of Taiwan's leading computer makers had concluded that the only way to really make money--and achieve prominence in world computer markets--was to build their own PCs, workstations, and notebook computers, and sell them in the West under their own brand names.