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...Fritz Ringling, a telecommunications consultant at Network Dynamics in New York City. "It wants Johnny in Atlanta to play Sega video games with his cousin in Seattle; Mom to use the Universal card and have her purchases rung up on an NCR cash register that uses an AT&T fax to transmit credit-verification data; and Dad to send messages to his office while he's out on a sales call using his AT&T hand-held computer." AT&T also intends to be a main source for the ; pocket phones, portable computers and other devices that tap into...
This week America's richest and most famous computer nerd will unveil his latest venture: an office software system that could connect computers, phones, copiers, fax machines and printers into a seamless digital web, thus permitting them to exchange information and circulate documents electronically. The system -- based on Microsoft's wildly successful Windows software -- could lead to a new wave of advanced office machines that would, for example, allow someone to write a memo and instantly send it to the computer screens of his staff members, the photocopier down the hall, his boss's printer, and the fax machines...
With its announcement this week, Microsoft seeks to extend Windows beyond desktop personal computers to telephones, copiers, printers and fax machines. Since these markets dwarf the PC business, the company stands to collect enormous revenues by licensing its software design to office-equipment vendors that will make the new machines that run the Microsoft At Work system. The combined sales of copiers, printers, telephones and fax machines, for instance, topped $60 billion last year, in contrast to $38 billion for PCs. Analysts project that Microsoft could generate at least $200 million in royalties from those licenses by the year...
Loker Commons area draft plans also show space for up to three booths for services which could include a newsstand, a sweet shop, a florist, a ticket office, a fax machine, e-mail terminals or short-term facilities for student-run activities...
...sure enough, most of us have. How much the world has changed since freshman year! We not only had no TV, we had no VCR, no computer, no fax. Commercial plane travel had hardly begun. I was the first in my family...