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But if Gould was a bizarre person, his many recordings also show him as a brilliant, unusual musician with spectacular digital agility. Best known for his Bach interpretations (he recorded all of Bach's solo keyboard works), Gould almost never played the music of Romantic composers like Chopin, Liszi and...
Nevertheless, the wiring of America proceeds apace. Some local phone companies are testing systems that will divide standard voice telephone lines into three digital channels, allowing telephone customers to plug terminals directly into their wall sockets, without benefit of modem, and to program their phones like computers. Networking firms, such...
What will tomorrow bring? Despite the overblown expectations of home computer makers, who predicted that Americans would by this time be ordering their groceries and setting their thermostats by computer, futurists are now envisioning a brave new world of one-stop networking. Commuters will set burglar alarms, start air conditioners...
This vision, too, may be a little far-fetched. Still, says Patrick Gordon, a communications expert at the Yankee Group, the Boston-based high-tech research firm, "the integrated services digital network is not a blue sky, Buck Rogers fantasy. It's already on its way."
With combined revenues of $10.7 billion, the new company, which has yet to be named, will easily pass Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment (1985 revenues: $7 billion), the current No. 2 computer maker. Blumenthal, 60, who will be chairman, said the Burroughs-Sperry combination hoped to slash costs and boost profits...