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Digital Equipment Corp. used to be the computer industry's most invincible number cruncher. For nearly three decades, the Massachusetts-based manufacturer enjoyed uninterrupted growth as its potent line of VAX midrange computers muscled sales away from IBM by offering comparable computing power at cut-rate prices. But DEC has...
The M.P.A.A. signed a truce with Go-Video in 1988 after the company agreed to equip its VCRs with an electronic device that can detect a special signal on a movie tape and prevent the consumer from making a copy. Last year Go- Video settled with 21 other defendants in...
"I just can't bring myself to buy a compact-disc player until I have something in writing that says that's the last thing they're going to invent," says comedian Rita Rudner. Sorry, Rita. Now there's a major new format to agonize over: digital audio tape. Sony...
Such concerns could prove irrelevant, since consumer resistance to DAT may well render it DOA. The machines are dear: $950 for Sony's model, vs. $150 for a cheap CD player. But DAT's biggest flaw is that it may quickly become obsolete. Japanese companies are already working on a...
BEETHOVEN: 9 SYMPHONIES (BMG/RCA). This five-disc set (also available on cassette) spearheads the first installment of BMG's ambitious "Toscanini Collection." It is an invaluable introduction to Arturo Toscanini, who was revered for most of this century as an emblem of musical perfection but is now sometimes assailed for...