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Because of a 13-per-cent educational discount and a special agreement between Harvard's Aiken Computation Laboratory and the Digital Equipment Corporation, which sells the VAX and PDP line of computers, the University paid only about one half of the computer's regular price, officials said.
It was slow to develop new small business computers, allowing such competitors as Data General and Digital Equipment to grab large parts of the market. At the same time, aggressive smaller companies, like Wang Laboratories and Lanier Business Products, took the lead in developing word-processing machines, which combine the...
But for this digital democracy to work smoothly, the computers have to be in constant conversation, performing as many as 440 checks on each other every second. That, of course, requires extremely precise synchronization. Yet even after repeated troubleshooting, the controllers in Houston found that Columbia's primary computers...
And one final image--the green displays and low hum of digital computer terminals, hooked up in a computer graphics laboratory that once was a bedroom.
Both the general public and big Institutional Investors have been active in the market, but large pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds have been major buyers of the bigger issues. It is harder for the small investor to get ahold of the most exciting stocks because brokers usually give...