Word: disks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their storage tapes for NSC memos and eventually turned over a stack of printouts nearly 4 ft. high. Explains Donn Parker, a computer security specialist at SRI International: "It is so ingrained in computer operators that they have to preserve data that if you tell them to erase a disk, the first thing they do is make a backup tape...
Attempts by North to alter, and perhaps even delete, certain key files may have been foiled by another feature of the system. Like most computers, the NSC mainframe deletes electronic documents not by obliterating the data they contain, but by removing their file names from a central disk directory. The body of information remains intact indefinitely -- or until the space it occupies is written over with new data. Thus a resourceful programmer, armed with a description of a document that has been zapped, can often resurrect it from the disk. "We were living under a delusion," admitted one Administration official...
While Reagan intended last week's sanctions to be harsh, the Administration carefully aimed them at the offending Japanese companies rather than U.S. consumers. Most of the products -- among them computer disk drives, refrigerators and electric motors -- are manufactured by the same giant corporations that the U.S. accuses of violating the semiconductor agreement: NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi and others. Because the proposed 100% duties would effectively double the U.S. prices of those items, the Administration avoided choosing products in which Japan has a near monopoly, as in the case of videocassette recorders. The sanctioned products are manufactured by enough companies...
...Macintosh SE (SE for Slightly Expanded or Somewhat Expensive) is a Macintosh Plus with a few extra features. The primary addition is a system expansion slot (SE slot). The SE also comes with two 800K internal disk drives (the Plus can only hold one internal drive). Additionally, the SE can handle an internal SCSI hard disk drive...
Both the Mac II and the SE will be able to be connected with color video monitors and IBM disk drives. But, the MS-DOS (ie. IBM) connection will cost upwards of a thousand dollars...