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...more like a skeptical consumer. "There's a lot of plumage here, but I wonder if the beast underneath isn't still pretty scrawny," he says, pointing out that the Net is still too slow and hard for many people to use. King, a Macintosh user, couldn't download his book, which came out only in PC-readable formats. "This is a good illustrative example of all the potential that so-called e-commerce has, and then the reality of the situation," he says. "In point of fact, what e-commerce has been selling for the past five years...
Despite the new titles, Eliot House has not forgotten its old-school past--its computerized card catalog is still stored on an antiquated Macintosh Classic...
...careless can an intelligence chief be? JOHN DEUTCH, former CIA director, seems to have been very careless indeed. In 1995 and 1996 he shunned a secure CIA computer, opting to compose 74 documents containing highly classified information, including memos to the President and Cabinet members, on an unsecure Macintosh at his home. Worse, he used the same computer for personal e-mail, receiving a note from a former Russian citizen living in Western Europe. Deutch family members also surfed the Web on it; one visited porn sites...
Sixteen years ago, Ridley Scott's blockbuster commercial 1984 introduced the Apple Macintosh to the PC market. Perhaps more important, it established the Super Bowl as the unofficial high holiday of capitalism--the launch pad for baroque, high-profile ads that today generate more excitement than the game. (And why not? There's more money riding on them.) This fun, edifying, hourlong survey, narrated by Frank Gifford, hits more than 50 highlights, from Bud Bowls I and II to Dan Quayle's pitching Lays potato (without an "e") chips...
Like all softhearted computer geeks, I have a profoundly emotional relationship with all things Macintosh. Windows PCs have always struck me as cold, tense machines prone to byzantine internal-code conflicts; their Apple counterparts are easygoing, intuitive open books. For very little effort, Macs provide a lot of reward. Right now, they're the only machines capable of making the Internet revolution happen for everyone, not just the techno-savvy top tier...