1992

IBM returns to India. Big blue makes a front door entry via Tata Information Systems Ltd. a 50-50 joint venture with Tata Group. 

DoT turns down VSNL’s request to run car phones in India.

Peripheral prices go up. 

VSNL to provide 64Kbps leased lines for internet connectivity.

Hughes Software Systems sets up shop in India. 

Tata Unisys joins the training bandwagon.

Storage breaks new ground. Kodak’s optical storage library offers online access to over 1 terabyte of stored data within 6.5 seconds.

Following divisions in the Birla group, Tatas emerge as the numero uno group in India. 

Tata Industries Chairman Ratan Tata becomes a member of the IBM Asia-Pacific Board.

The top two IT companies, HCL-HP and Wipro Infotech–announce EISA machines around Intel’s new 486DX2.

Siemens-Nixdorf enters India with software venture. Siemens Information Systems Ltd is a joint venture between Siemens Ltd of India (51%) and Siemens-Nixdorf Information System AG of Germany.

Ashok Soota becomes the head of all IT companies in the Wipro fold.

Silicon Graphics sets up its fully-owned subsidiary in India.

India refuses to sign NPT with the US restricting the sale of advanced computers to India. 

Samsung printers come to India.

Computer division of the DCM Group, DCM DP, is spun off as a separate entity.

STP comes at NOIDA.

NIC NICnet finally opened to private sector.