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Another example is that a company such as 3COM (it makes most of the ethernet cards used by people on the Harvard network) may issue an updated driver which increases and improves the functionality of their devices. Simply perusing the Web sites of hardware and software manufacturers will do wonders to improve your computer proficiency...
...centerpiece of the museum is the Walk Through Computer 2000, a two-story working Pentium computer with a giant keyboard, trackball and monitor. It's an eerie experience to actually maneuver through a computer like the one you have in your dorm room, down to the pickup-truck sized 3Com card inside...
...salvage its tired old Newton handheld operating system, a surprisingly powerful technology for word processing and Web browsing. But Apple has made two mistakes: it never managed to make Newtons' handwriting recognition anything less than laughable, and it couldn't fit the OS into a box as small as 3Com's wildly successful PalmPilot...
...surprising just how far things have come. We're well beyond such hucksterish practices as the renaming of San Francisco's Candlestick Park as 3Com Park and Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium as Cinergy Field after corporate sponsors. That's pure commercialism that helps pay for stratospheric ballplayer salaries and gives companies gigantic billboards. Backing social causes, on the other hand, moves corporations onto a moral plain. You may not like profit-minded ceos deciding which charities get all the loot. But in an era of shrinking government responsibility for the welfare of its citizens, somebody has to pick...
...already own a computer and simply need an Ethernet card to connect to Harvard's network, there's no better place to go than TPC. The store sells all of the supported devices for the network, and their prices for premium devices like 3Com cards are as low as mail-order vendors. They also have a liberal return policy on defective cards and erroneous purchases, usually accepting returned cards without receipts...