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...cavernous Las Vegas Convention Center a month ago, more than 1,000 computer companies large and small were showing off their wares, their floppy discs and disc drives, joy sticks and modems, to a mob of some 50,000 buyers, middlemen and assorted technology buffs. Look! Here is Hewlett-Packard's HP9000, on which you can sketch a new airplane, say, and immediately see the results in 3-D through holograph imaging; here is how the Votan can answer and act on a telephone call in the middle of the night from a salesman on the other side...
...Hewlett Packard is experimenting with machines that respond to vocal commands; Osborne is leading a rush toward portable computers, ideally no larger than a book. And for every innovator, there are at least five imitators selling copies...
...John McCollum, "as something of a loner. He always had a different way of looking at things." Solitude may, however, have bred ambition. McCollum was stunned to learn that the young loner, needing parts for class projects, picked up the phone and called Burroughs collect in Detroit and Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, over in Palo Alto...
...list includes Johnson & Johnson as well as Procter & Gamble in consumer goods; Digital Equipment, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Emerson Electric in high technology; Delta Air Lines and McDonald's in services; and Caterpillar, Dana and 3M in a catchall category called "general industrial." Those companies were singled out not only because of their solid financial performance over the long haul (20 years or more) but also because of other qualities, especially the ability to innovate. The excellent companies, say the authors, "fawn" on their customers and learn from them. The best managers value action above all else, a spirit...
...present, joint education projects are sponsored by only a few computer and high-technology firms, including AT&T, Bell Telephone Labs, General Electric, RCA and Wang, and even fewer universities, notably Stanford. The computer and electronics firm Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, Calif, encourages its engineers to take six course hours a week on the firm's time. Says President John Young, "Sure, we lose six hours a week, but in exchange our engineers usually manage to get their job done, and the new knowledge they get from the course will inevitably help." Of course, continuing education for engineers...