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...give key civilian researchers access to military computers, ARPANET could also be reached over telephone lines by anyone with a home terminal and the proper phone number. Hundreds of "tourists" have roamed through the system, many of them teen-agers who rode it like a magic carpet to computerland. The network's lines have been used for Dungeons & Dragons duels and its electronic mail system as a dating service. Far more serious, according to officials, attempts to tap into coded classified data have become increasingly bold...
...from its traditional practices, IBM built the PC largely from parts bought from outside suppliers and is selling it through retail outlets like Sears and ComputerLand, as well as its own sales network. The company has begun offering discount prices and introducing new products at an accelerated rate. Last December IBM spent $250 million to acquire 12% of Intel, a leading computer-chip maker based in Santa Clara, Calif. In June IBM paid $228 million for a 15% stake in Rolm, also of Santa Clara, a major producer of telecommunications equipment. IBM plans to use Rolm to help create...
...whole systems but on particular sectors?with dramatic results. In low-speed printers using what is known as the dot-matrix method the Japanese had only a 6% share of the market in 1980; in 1982, they provided half the 500,000 such printers sold in the US Says Computerland President Ed Faber: "About...
...Japanese have already won plaudits for the design and manufacturing quality of their machines. Says Marian Murphy, a vice president of ComputerLand, the largest retail computer chain, which has 210 stores in the U.S.: "Their hardware is as good as the American hardware." Experts are particularly impressed by the small handheld and portable computers that Japanese firms are producing...
...group has avoided the mistakes of other young computer companies. From the start it relied on the advice of accountants and demanded payment from customers in cash. Rather than marketing its wares through catalogues and mail-order houses, the firm courted well-established dealers like Computerland, a coast-to-coast retailing network for personal and small-business computers. To assure reliable servicing, Vector worked out a deal with TRW, a Cleveland-based aerospace and electronics conglomerate...