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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It may be winter in Cambridge, but the glass walls of the Science Center's Machine Room #1 sustain a jungle: mice hang from swinging cables, keyboards perch on walls and wires droop down from every crack and crevice like banyon sprouts. This is Harvard's biggest computer--a seemingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

Of course, anyone with a pocket protector will point out that labeling Harvard's "biggest" computer requires gross simplification. Are we talking biggest monitor? Biggest capacity? Computer which allows most number of simultaneous log-ons? Computer "size" is truly in the definition of the beholder, and Machine Room #1 can...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

(For the record, the biggest computer monitor at Harvard is 56 inches and utilizes the largest cathode-ray tube available to man. The monstrous screen has been used for presenting demos to groups and for some video editing, but according to Winthrop House User Assistant Jeffrey E. Zinsmeister `00, "like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

Ever feel like taking on Bill Gates and Microsoft single-handedly? You may be surprised to learn that you don?t have to be Janet Reno to do it, or even a state attorney general. On Monday a group of regular computer users found a clause in the EULA (End...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Microsoft Owe You Money? | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

Monday, in case you missed it, was Windows Refund Day. Here?s the basic idea behind it: When you buy a computer that comes with the Windows operating system pre-installed -- and the majority of computers do -- the EULA explicitly states that if you decide not to use that operating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Microsoft Owe You Money? | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

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