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...White Hotel, but rather to show him the structure behind that impervious force. Thomas achieves this unveiling partly through his language, which, though elegant and fragile, is not as colorful or as powerful as that in The White Hotel. Equally important are the characterizations. In The White Hotel, Lisa Erdman and Freud were a haunting, even inspiring pair, but Surkov, Rozanov and Finn run the gamut from merely distasteful to completely horrifying...
Tecmar is one of a fast-growing legion of companies that manufacture supplementary products for use with the IBM personal computer, including hardware to enhance its performance. According to court papers filed by IBM, Erdman told Tecmar that he and some senior IBM technical personnel were planning to leave the company. Without telling IBM, they had already set up their own computer-equipment company, Bridge Technology, Inc. Erdman proposed to sell Tecmar some 40 designs for add-on products for the IBM personal computer, including plans for a so-called combination board that, among other things, would improve the machine...
...first hint that IBM had a serious new security problem came in an Aug. 12 phone call to the company from Martin Alpert, president of Tecmar, Inc., an electronics firm in Cleveland. Alpert said that his company had been approached by IBM's Erdman with an offer of what appeared to be confidential information. IBM officials persuaded Alpert to play along with Erdman and covertly tape their negotiations. IBM Security Director Richard Mainey planned the ruse and equipped Alpert with a recorder...
...Erdman and Alpert discussed the deal several times on the phone and once met in the IBM manager's Stamford, Conn., home. As Erdman talked, Alpert taped. The negotiations climaxed in a Sept. 4 meeting at Alpert's Cleveland office. This time, Erdman brought along Engineers Stearns and Eggebrecht, who described his knowledge of IBM product designs. At the end of the day, Erdman left a draft contract for Alpert to sign...
...last week, the trio of defendants had not told their side of the story. Erdman spoke briefly with reporters and denied having any association with Bridge Technology, the independent computer company he had allegedly helped start. He professed to be "dumbfounded by the whole thing." Said his lawyer, John Bartels: "My client is innocent, and I think we will prove it." Eggebrecht and Stearns shunned the press altogether...