Word: ibm
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...number of distinguished experts, including Professor of Law Richard D. Parker, Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick MacFarquhar and IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter will speak at the con- ference...
...Twas right around Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring -- except George Molnar and his mouse. Molnar, president of Midwest Business Systems, a Southfield, Michigan, computer outlet, had just brought home a top-of-the-line IBM clone -- one of those multimedia wonders that come preloaded with dozens of software titles and bedecked with a CD-ROM drive, stereo speakers and a way-too-big monitor. The machine was "a Cadillac," says Molnar, except for one thing: it was having trouble getting started. Molnar sat there, mouse in hand, pointing and clicking, trying...
...better, because there are some angry people out there. Like the Ippolitos, a Brooklyn family who were in line -- not online -- at a J&R Computer World store last week, waiting to return a piece of software that wouldn't work. The family owns two late-model computers, IBM clones, so that both Nick, 14, and Zachary, 11, will always have a machine for marauding and avenging. A few weeks ago, their father bought them the CD-ROM game Front Page Sports Baseball '94, by Sierra Online. The game, which the boys opened Christmas Eve, couldn't be installed properly...
Intel had reason to be high-handed: 80% of personal computers used in the world have "Intel inside." But the company didn't count on being blindsided by another behemoth. Last week IBM, the world's largest computer maker and one of Intel's biggest customers, announced that it was halting shipments of all its products containing the Pentium (about half the personal computers it is at present sending out to stores). Brandishing its own laboratory research, IBM contended that the chip's mistakes were far more frequent than Intel had let on. Said G. Richard Thoman, an IBM senior...
While researchers at Intel and IBM debated the seriousness of the problem, customers who had bought -- or planned to buy -- Pentium-based computers were confused and often angry. Intel admitted last week that tens of thousands of customers have called about the problem. Easing its earlier hard line, the company agreed to replace a few thousand of the chips for buyers who requested a switch, and it will soon begin selling a corrected model. But to Robert Sombric, the data-processing manager for the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, government, Intel's decision to go on selling the flawed chips for months...