Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. PAUL RAND, 82, innovative graphic designer and creator of instantly recognizable corporate logos for IBM, ABC and UPS among others; in Norwalk, Connecticut. A devotee of functionalism, Rand was one of the first to bring modern design's simplicity to commercial...
...long ago, IBM and Blockbuster toyed with the idea of using digital-music files to generate in-store CDs tailored to customers' specific preferences--a practice already common in the piracy-friendly Third World. The industry didn't exactly welcome the plan with open arms. In fact, the big labels howled and threatened to withhold their hottest titles. IBM and Blockbuster quietly let the idea...
...winner IBM ThinkPad 760ED...
...IBM is infamous for blowing its hard-won head start in the desktop-personal-computer business in the early 1980s. Now it's staging a credible come-from-behind charge in the laptop marketplace with a series of thin, lightweight machines that perform well and look great. The strongest of the wonderful bunch is the 133-MHz Pentium-powered 760ED. With a luminous 12.1-in. screen, 16 MB of memory standard in each computer and a large 2.1-GB hard drive and built-in fax modem, the 6.7-lb. computer is powerful enough to handle the strictest demands of Road...
...buzz BILL HOWARD, PC Magazine: "IBM has added a lot of flexibility to the ThinkPad 760. It has the best pointing device, the screen is among the best for its size and vivid color, and there's a modular bay for putting in a CD-ROM drive, a floppy drive or a second floppy...