General Electric Co Manufactured toasters, jet engines, nuclear power plants, and, for a while, computers GE sold its computer division to Honeywell in 1970, in an event referred to as the "merger " Joke from that time: GE executives had a big meeting in Florida (Story: "Shangri-La and the Paris 645") to decide how to become number two in the computer business (this was in the days when it was "IBM and the seven dwarfs") The solution they came up with: buy IBM and manage it for 6 months
ge
Aussprache
Etymologie
(combining form.) Middle English geo-, from Middle French and Latin; Middle French, from Latin, from Greek gE-, geO-, from gE.