Vernon Weiss (born 1951) is a retired American computer systems engineer. Weiss was a key person in the development of the XPS family of personal computers at

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and was the director of the personal computing division

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and a product manager at

Northgate Computer Systems __NOTOC__ Northgate Computer Systems, Inc., based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States, was a mail-order personal computer company, founded in 1987 by Arthur "Art" Lazere. The 1990s were a golden era for mail-order PC business. Consumers w ...

. During his early years in the computer industry, Vernon Weiss worked at

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as the product manager for the Data General PC group. He was involved with the

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, Two and the

Data General Walkabout The Walkabout is a family of notebook-sized laptops introduced by Data General in 1989 and discontinued in 1993. The first entry in the line, simply named the Walkabout, was a battery-powered portable terminal capable of emulating multiple proto ...

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