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This week America's richest and most famous computer nerd will unveil his latest venture: an office software system that could connect computers, phones, copiers, fax machines and printers into a seamless digital web, thus permitting them to exchange information and circulate documents electronically. The system -- based on Microsoft's wildly successful Windows software -- could lead to a new wave of advanced office machines that would, for example, allow someone to write a memo and instantly send it to the computer screens of his staff members, the photocopier down the hall, his boss's printer, and the fax machines...
...Baby Bells -- the seven regional phone companies that were created by the breakup of AT&T in 1984. Until now, each has enjoyed a monopoly on local telephone service in its own region; long-distance phone companies had to pay a hefty fee to, say, BellSouth, in order to connect to a phone customer in Atlanta. But through its new alliance, U S West will, in theory, be able to provide local phone service to Time Warner cable subscribers outside the Western states, threatening to grab a share of the long-distance connect charges that account for a quarter...
...such bulletin boards as Nixpix in Aspen, Colorado, and Odyssey in Monrovia, California. Jim Maxey, a former journalist and part-time private eye who runs the Event Horizons system in Lake Oswego, Oregon, grossed $3.5 million last year from computer users willing to pay $9 an hour to connect to his bulging database of R- and X-rated digital images and film loops...
Then there was the final wiring to connect all the individual units together into one single chip. In fact, if we retain any memory of the project, it must be the painful experience with wiring, which took the largest amount of time we spent laying out the chip...
...fighters call this the "bicycle path," a narrow strip of bitterly contested ground cutting for nearly 150 miles through north central Bosnia to connect the Serb stronghold of Doboj to Serbia proper. Muslim and Croat lines ) pinch the corridor on both its eastern and western flanks. Daily shelling empties the town much of the day; by early afternoon the only sound on the main boulevard is the flapping of plastic sheets that cover shop windows shattered by artillery rounds. But when dusk closes in, fighters and young girls venture out to meet at a small park, whispering beneath the pine...