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Once you have the personal computer, there are plenty things you can do with it. As head of the Macintosh User's Group Christopher Carroll '86 says, "Most people just use the word processor for normal boring things like word processing...
Harvard Entrepreneur Evan C. Marwell '87 who co-runs a laser printing business with Macintosh computers, said HSA "satisfies the entrepreneur...
...former magazine editor (L'Express), author (The American Challenge) and his country's leading technophile, stepped down last week as president of the Paris-based World Center for Computer Science and Human Resources. He resigned to protest his government's decision to use French computers rather than the Apple Macintosh in its ambitious computer-literacy program. Under the plan, which Servan-Schreiber devised in 1984, France will place computer-learning centers in 36,500 cities, towns, villages and hamlets. Yielding to pressure from France's computer industry, the ruling Socialist Party rejected Servan- Schreiber's bid to use the American...
Servan-Schreiber argues that the French models selected for the program (a network of inexpensive machines, such as a Thomson, hooked up to larger computers like the Bull Micral) are not Macintosh's equal. Said he: "I personally believe that the best machine is the Macintosh. I am not against French industry. It is just a choice of technology...
ELECTRONIC ART. MacPaint, which works on the Apple Macintosh, seems to have opened up a new artistic world on personal computers. Using only the Mac's palm-size mouse controller, the program gave chartmakers and would-be Picassos easy access to a variety of artist's tools, from an electronic paintbrush with variable-size brushstrokes to a computer paint can that pours out an infinite variety of patterns and shades. There is now a quiverful of MacPaint imitations that run on other machines, including Apple's MousePaint ($100) and Broderbund's DazzleDraw ($50) for the Apple II, Mouse Systems...