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...Harold Evans, president of Random House, and John Sculley, chairman of Apple Computer, met in a New York City boardroom and announced that titles from one of America's most famous book series, the Modern Library, will be published in electronic form. Among the first to be issued on disk are Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Melville's Moby Dick and Dickens' David Copperfield. The disks, priced below $25, are designed to run on Apple's portable PowerBook computers, which are widely considered to be more reader-friendly than IBM-type laptops...
...highflyer. The Colorado-based company's financial statements in the mid-1980s painted it as a vigorous, healthy computer-parts maker with a bright future. But an internal investigation drew quite a different picture. The probe uncovered massive fraud by senior managers, who shipped boxes of bricks labeled as disk drives and counted them as sales. Investigators blamed executives for the company's cooked books, but bondholders also sued Miniscribe's auditors, Coopers & Lybrand, for conducting faulty audits. In February a jury stunned the accounting profession by ordering C&L to pay damages of $200 million. It was the largest...
Unfortunately, The Crimson seems to identify with the concept of a data-destroying virus. Contrary to your "contributing reporter's" report, I advised HIID's only problem was a (coincidental) mechanical failure of a hard disk, which occurred while scanning an old XT for any sign of infection. The data involved was recovered, and the disk replaced...
...first distinguished himself as a mediator in 1967, when looting and burning broke out in the ghettos of Detroit. Vance had just resigned as Deputy Secretary of Defense because of a ruptured disk. President Lyndon B. Johnson asked him to take command of the troops he was sending to quell the riots. Vance's back trouble was so incapacitating that he had to take his wife Gay with him to tie his shoelaces. His management of that crisis became a model for leaders in other cities during those long hot summers...
Contagious. At risk. Infections. Precautions. Protection. The AIDS analogy is somewhat irresistible: Before you put your disk in someone's drive, you need to know who else has put their disk in that person's drive. And where else their disk in that person's drive. And where else their disks have been. If that's too difficult, you can always get tested before you interface...