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...Rich first came to FM's table as a Dick. Two weeks later, he abandoned Harvard Square for the brighter concrete of the Bayside Expo Center, setting an intrepid tone for the rest of his magazine career. Creative, thoughtful and newly shorn, Rich also enjoys playing rugby and programming computers. He seeks answers of all kinds, but primarily to the question: How to keep FM first...
Still hedging their bets on that last question were the crowds at the Preparedness Expo at the Denver Merchandise Mart earlier this month, where several thousand attendants watched merchants demonstrate how to load a blowgun, use dryer lint to start a fire and cook an egg on a stick. Even survivalist stalwarts at the event were beginning to downplay fears that the Y2K computer bug will cause chaos come Jan. 1. "I don't think that the world is coming to a screeching halt," says renowned survivalist Bo Gritz. But in Paonia, Colo., Joy MacNulty, 69, isn't taking chances...
DEJA VU The hottest machines at PC Expo in New York City last week looked suspiciously similar to a PC made by the one big company that didn't show, Apple. Daewoo Telecom's Future Power, for example, unveiled an all-in-one Windows PC called the E-Power that comes in five flavors, er, colors--amethyst, ruby, topaz, emerald and sapphire. Bad news for Steve Jobs: E-Power will ship at about two-thirds the price of the iMac...
...able to see you playing games, either. LOOK, MA! NO WIRES Still trying to hook your laptop to your cell phone when you're on the road? Instead of wrestling with a kluge, try plugging in a wireless modem like Sierra Wireless' AirCard 300 for Windows. PC Expo was packed with products like this, all betting heavily on a cable-free future. AirCard's advantage is that it automatically connects to a digital cellular network--or even a LAN--when you boot up, and it has a funky-looking antenna as well. The only catch: cellular can't operate...
...glad that David S. Jackson, who attended the Electronic Entertainment Expo of the video- and computer-game industry [VIDEO GAMES, May 24], did not write an article on how these games are causing violence in children. As long as the children who play them have a strong grip on reality, violent video games are fine. There are so many people who regularly play video games and are unaffected by them that the games are obviously not to blame for violence. GREGORY A. KNOX Millbrae, Calif...