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...machinery is installed and the modem plugged in, there are hundreds of computer networks accessible by phone, from bulletin boards geared to specific machines to on-line dating services that anyone can join. The most popular pay-for-connect-time utilities, like The Source (40,000 subscribers) and Compu Serve (70,000), advertise in newspapers and computer magazines. These commercial operations offer their subscribers news, horoscopes, games and travel tips. The phone numbers of smaller systems pass by electronic word of mouth. All it takes to get started is one working telephone number; most networks carry extensive lists of other...
With Computers. Still spreading out, Randell early this year bought two other college marketing services and next week will begin a computerized service to match graduating seniors with corporate job openings through a third acquisition, Manhattan-based Compu-job. In mid-June he expects to open a campus discount store at the University of Oklahoma. "It's very easy to start a small business these days," Randell maintains, "if you want to give up everything else for years...