Word: capobianco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Capobianco's one-man financial consulting firm in Eastchester, N.Y., would not exist without services such as CompuServe, Dow Jones and the Source. By plugging into these far-flung communication systems, Capobianco can advertise his company across the U.S., chat with clients, make travel plans and keep up with current affairs. Says he: "I couldn't survive without the networks...
...Capobianco is not talking about ABC, CBS and NBC. The networks changing his life--and the lives of millions of Americans--are the ones connecting the nation's 30 million computers in a vast maze of interlocking grids. America's infatuation with the electronic computer, a machine born and nurtured on these shores, is blossoming into a network love affair. Says Louise Herndon Wells, an analyst with the California research firm Dataquest: "We have more desktops wired together with information devices than any other country in the world...
...next year the computer network that links Miller's bank card to his grocery register will connect four California banks to 300 Lucky Stores. Wanda Jaworski's computer system is one of 300 LANs (local area networks) that already crisscross every large Travelers' office. Capobianco's networks branch from giant mainframe computers that tie hundreds of thousands of personal computer owners in an electronic community that stretches from coast to coast...
...only one in the world who can arrange this event," boasted San Diego Opera Director Tito Capobianco. Indeed, Capobianco's Die Fledermaus was an operatic double play: the first time Queen Coloraturas Beverly Sills, 51, and Joan Sutherland, 53, have appeared onstage together, and the last time Sills will appear in a full-length opera. Of course, few would have considered asking two divas to, Mozart forbid, share the same spotlight. Says Sills: "We still don't know if Tito asked Joan first and told her I had said yes, or asked me first and told...