Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I got my svelte, 4-lb. IBM Thinkpad last year, it made my old Mac PowerBook look obese. At 7 lbs., the Mac was a laptop in the same way that a bull mastiff is a lapdog. You need a pretty big lap. But my ThinkPad was so small and powerful, I figured I'd take it everywhere. On the train, Mr. Productivity would write his columns, answer his e-mail and even "test" a game...
...same night, the Mary Prentiss Inn was also victim to a series of crimes. The morning of Feb. 14, the co-owner of the inn, located at 6 Prentiss St., discovered that someone had stolen an IBM computer from an unlocked workshop area...
...recently announced support for Linux by major players like IBM has boosted confidence...
...Macintoshes are bought relative to the proportion of their respective student users. For example, when Harvard last bought their latest slew of new machines in fall 1997, there were two new Macintoshes bought for every three new IBM-compatible computers...
...money. The traditional role of government in a free market is to act as arbiter to prevent monopolistic big guys from dominating the market and pushing around the little guys. But once government became a player, it would be the biggest guy on the block, bigger than Standard Oil, IBM and AT&T were in their biggest, baddest days. Why sue Microsoft? The Federal Government could simply...