Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While IBM still carries heavy clout in the market for large mainframe computers, the company is getting bullied in two important product categories: personal and midsize machines. With its PCs holding sway as the industry's standard for business applications, IBM once commanded nearly 40% of the $25 billion personal...
IBM has endured similar indignities in the booming market for midsize data- processing computers, the $15,000-to-$200,000 machines used by Big Business and Government. While IBM is still the biggest in the $18 billion market, with a 17% share, Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment (fiscal 1987 revenues: $9.4...
Darkness has fallen on Cambridge, England, and on a damp and chilly evening King's Parade is filled with students and faculty. Then, down the crowded thoroughfare comes the University of Cambridge's most distinctive vehicle, bearing its most distinguished citizen. In the motorized wheelchair, boyish face dimly illuminated by...
A few years ago, Hawking's voice had deteriorated to a labored moan that only his family and a few associates could understand; one of them always stood close by to interpret his words. Then, in 1985, after Hawking nearly suffocated during a bout with pneumonia, he was given a...
Hardly. From midmorning until he departs for dinner around 7 p.m., Hawking follows a routine that would tax the most able-bodied. When he rolled into the department's common room one morning last month, his students were sprawled in lounge chairs around low tables, talking shop. Maneuvering to one...