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...then went to Oxford for two years as a Rhodes scholar. While in England he worked at London's Sunday Times, before returning to his native New Orleans to work as a reporter at the New Orleans States-Item. While there he also bought his first personal computer, a Kaypro...
Buckley has since abandoned the Heathkit. Aside from the seagoing Epson, he has four Kaypro portables, two IBM PCs (an AT and an XT), and a TeleVideo terminal. The IBM AT, which he keeps at his home in Connecticut, is able to store an entire novel in its customized internal memory. All the computers run the best-selling WordStar program. "I'm told there are better programs," says Buckley. "But I'm also told there are better alphabets." Despite owning all this equipment, he has never played a computer game, tapped into a data base or run numbers through...
...similar throne in cyberspace. Their union last week was cemented by a number trailed by so many zeros that it was easy to miss the fact that more than anything, this was a marriage of two protogeeks. Case, who began his romance with computers by building his own Kaypro PC, and Levin, whose love of media began when he was tucked in bed as a child, snug as a bug, he recalls, listening to the Lux Radio Theater as he fell asleep...
Case's own tastes were going digital. He bought a Kaypro, a clunky home computer connected to a snail-paced modem. Even for a hobbyist, the machine was a nightmare--hard to set up, impossible to maintain, boring to use. But the modem was a revelation. As he connected to early online services such as CompuServe and the Source, Case felt the electronic rapture that would one day seduce millions of AOL users: "There was something magical about the notion of sitting in Wichita and talking to the world...
...small, feisty computer makers have stolen away a hefty chunk of IBM's business by building personal computers that run software written for IBM PCs but sell for a fraction of the cost. The sellers of these so-called IBM-compatibles, companies such as Leading Edge, Epson and Kaypro, have snared an impressive 36.4% of the personal-computer market, while IBM's share has fallen to 33%. Says John Roach, chairman of Tandy, which manufactures a $999 model: "1986 will be the year of the PC-compatible." In the past few weeks the field has grown still more crowded...