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Sterile and deafeningly quiet, the Science Center terminal rooms offer everything from ancient Macs that still require a paper clip to extract your floppy disk, to the Digital Alpha workstations with their gargantuan monitors. A word to the wise: don't check your e-mail on these mothers the night before CS51 assignments are due. Office isn't installed on those bad boys anyway. Stroll on over to the back of the lab, and try to find a computer that isn't either occupied or "logging out." If you're lucky, you might get to actually enter your username...
...worst wasn't even the revolting tale of the "Greaseman," a white disk jockey in Washington who was fired for appending a vile quip to a portion of a song by multiple Grammy Award-winning hip-hop singer Lauryn Hill: "No wonder people drag them behind trucks...
...band for the chest, not the wrists. Listen to The Singles 81>85 and then play Songs of Faith and Devotion Live...you will drive a shiny black cadillac into heady manliness. Contrasted with the new tribute album, Various Artists for the Masses, which features a lovely orange disk along with The Smashing Pumpkins, Rammstein and The Cure, The Singles 81>85 may seem like old news (the new remixes are uninteresting), but at least it's for real: weird, childish and weird...
...could be waiting forever if price is your only reason to hold out. Just resign yourself to the fact that in one week your new 50-kajillion-dollar computer will be worth the value of one floppy disk and deal...
...prices of some Net stocks are overinflated to adolescent values. While it may seem counterintuitive to think of Intel as old tech, the market values hardware makers by a much more stringent standard than the newer Net businesses. Even though Intel and Seagate, the largest maker of personal-computer disk drives, signaled that sales are extremely robust, they are still in an industry that will be lucky to grow 20% in 1999. Yahoo, by contrast, is in a business that seems to double every six months. Its stock is up 14% in the first half of January, after rising...