Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this week's games healthy and in the hitting groove. Their musclemen, designated hitter Dave Parker and the Bash Brothers -- first baseman Mark McGwire and rightfielder Jose Canseco -- each homered at least once in the playoff series against Toronto. Canseco's was a tape-measure job estimated by an IBM computer at 480 ft. Nobody seemed more impressed than Jose himself telling callers on his personal hot line, (900) 234-JOSE, "I mean, this was one mammoth home run, - and you really enjoy hitting those types. I mean, if you gotta hit it, you might as well...
...take over the market for mass-produced memory chips. As he points out, the key component for a computer is not hardware but software, the instructions that make the machine work. When programs like Lotus 1-2-3 made the personal computer a runaway success in the early 1980s, IBM and other firms made a strategic decision to let Japan supply the demand for memory chips that U.S. chipmakers could not meet. The Japanese built costly factories to fabricate an enormous supply of chips. But then their price plummeted way below the cost of production, saddling Japan's conglomerates with...
...IBM...
...Charlie M. Smith, a member of the Class of '59 pat it, "I had to take early retirement from IBM, and this isn't a bad place to look...
...exhibition. Three members of the Chess Club will play against the champion, Edelman said, including Vivek Rao '92, Issa Youssef '90 and Andrew H. Serotta '91. Kasparov will also face Anna Akhsharumova, one of the top woman players in America, an unannounced faculty member, an unannounced alumnus and two IBM computers...