Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hundred experts in government, education and industry gather at Harvard for the opening of the Computation Laboratory, a "modernistic, two-story structure" featuring the 51-foot IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator...
Solomon lives in a four-bedroom, $275,000 home in a subdivision full of AT&T and IBM executives. His stepdad, Robert Daniele, is a trucking-company executive who likes to hunt; his mom, Mae Dean, is a secretary. The family moved to the well-kept neighborhood with Georgian homes for the space--their house sits on a one-acre plot--and the schools. Heritage is regarded as one of the best in the area...
Neither is true now, though. In the past few weeks, deft traders have been able to make 15 points on IBM in one day or make 6 on 3M or Alcoa, Eastman Kodak or Hewlett-Packard. These are marquee Dow names, not heavily manipulated penny stocks or hyped Net offerings. You could "scalp" a huge gain simply by buying these stocks at the opening and selling them at the bell...
Installing Linux was not exactly a walk through hell, but there was no way I could have done it without help--another reason to pay for something you can get free. After making absolutely no headway on my garden-variety IBM ThinkPad, I finally called "Thor," a guy in Red Hat's support squad. He checked around and then informed me that I was out of luck. My external CD drive was incompatible with the Red Hat distribution. "Laptops can be a nightmare," he confessed. Bowed, but not broken, I borrowed a desktop PC from the bowels of Time...
...word: him. Since arriving at AT&T 18 months ago, after stints at IBM and Hughes Electronics, Armstrong has unleashed a wave of high-profile, big-bucks purchases that has sent both his and the company's stock soaring. It was the perfect meeting of a CEO with an unlimited imagination and a corporation with an unlimited checkbook. In January 1998, just two months after Armstrong took the helm, the company paid $11 billion for Teleport, a company that operates fiber-optic networks in New York and other cities. Six months later, AT&T purchased Tele-Communications Inc., then...