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WHEN GARRY KASPAROV FACED OFF AGAINST AN IBM COMPUTER in last month's celebrated chess match, he wasn't just after more fame and money. By his own account, the world chess champion was playing for you, me, the whole human species. He was trying, as he put it shortly before the match, to "help defend our dignity...
...city of Atlanta proves the folly of underestimating the potential of the South. The capital of this region of "abject backwardness" refuses to fit the stereotype. The Olympics are coming. Conventions continue to pour in, and companies such as Coca-Cola ad IBM continue to locate their headquarters in this booming city. Atlanta's regional theater, under the artistic direction of an African-American, was recently hailed nationally as the model for diversifying its audience. The Symphony is first-rate, the film and music industries are growing and the theatrical production is explosive. Historically, the South has produced such artists...
Roger B. Porter, IBM professor of business and government, has been named director of the Center for Business and Government at the Kennedy School, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. said Thursday...
Instead, many of today's undergraduates cut their computer teeth on systems like the Atari 800 and Commodore 64 and Coleco Adam. They only cost a few hundred dollars and plugged right into your television set. And unlike IBM's original PC, they were colorful and easy...
These early machines had a lot in common with pet rocks, however. They mostly just sat there. Unlike the ever-expandable IBM PC, you were limited in what you could do with them. Eventually, people got bored and bought more powerful machines--like the IBM PC and its clones...