Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virus, which attaches itself to and ruins IBM files with ".EXE" and ".COM" suffixes, has often been found infecting the popular word processing program Wordperfect, Samenfeld said...
...staff of the student computer laboratory at the Kennedy School of Government discovered a computer virus Monday that damaged files for the lab's IBM and IBM-compatible computers...
According to a user assisstant at the Science Center Computer Laboratory, there have been no problems with this particular IBM virus, but "we have Macintosh viruses on a regular basis...
...moment are failing to fill users' needs. They believe the expansion during the early and mid-1980s was based largely on the proliferation of such breakthrough products as the Apple II personal computer (1977); WordStar, the wordprocessing program (1979); VisiCalc, an electronic accounting ledger or spreadsheet (1979); the IBM PC (1981); Apple's Macintosh, with its advanced graphics capability (1984); and desktop- publishing gear like Aldus PageMaker...
...three years, we will have the next set of innovations, which will make them abandon their projections. It has happened before, and it will happen again." Don Valentine, a partner in Sequoia Capital, a venture-capital firm, contends that creative stagnation is confined mostly to the big corporations, including IBM, Wang and Unisys. Says he: "There is no innovation at the dinosaur companies that are run by Neanderthals. Perhaps they have outlived their function...