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Makers of the software for personal computers have also been suffering from slower than expected sales, ruinous competition and an excess of copycat products. Among the victims are two industry giants. VisiCorp, marketer of VisiCalc, a pioneering business program, has shelved plans to create its own software, cut its work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sad Tales off Silicon Valley | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Diasonics is another firm that started as a supernova, only to turn into a financial black hole. The Milpitas maker of medical diagnostic equipment attracted some of the San Francisco area's most experienced investors and last year took in $123 million in one of the largest public stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sad Tales off Silicon Valley | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Priced at $3,995 and $5,795 in its two versions, the PC AT will be going head-to-head in the office market against such established firms as Digital Equipment and Data General, as well as Silicon Valley upstarts like Altos and Fortune. said Phillip White, a senior vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Giant Flexes Its Muscles | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

Hackers, says Turkle, are social misfits who construct digital Utopias, hang out in pancake houses and admire the recursive art of M.C. Escher. At M.I.T their nerdy abdication from society is "sport death"-programming for up to 30 hours without sleep before "crashing." Alex, a dedicated hacker, describes it as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Byting Back | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

TIME has also managed some noteworthy Olympic feats. In its three issues covering the action, TIME has premiered a new system for transmitting color photographs that can reduce the time between shutter snap in the Los Angeles Coliseum and finished picture in TIME'S U.S. printing plants to as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 20, 1984 | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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