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...separate bits of data, or four times the capacity of the 16K RAM, which until recently was the industry standard. For U.S. chipmakers, who have watched the Japanese cripple the American auto, steel and television industries, the 64K strike was ominous. Says W.J. Sanders III, chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, one of the many semiconductor firms that have sprouted in Northern California's Silicon Valley: "This highly successful, productive U.S. industry, the leading edge of this country's economic future, is hurting...
...compared with $1,530 for the genuine article in the U.S. A few of the bogus machines bear Apple Computer Inc.'s distinctive trademark, a multicolored apple with a bite missing. Others have slightly changed names like Apolo. Asian manufacturers have so successfully duplicated the silicon micro chips in the core of the Apple machines that the imitations can use a broad range of software, from VisiCalc, the top-selling business budgeting and planning program, to video games like Snack Attack and Rocket Intercept...
...Chris Schumann, 16, a junior, has made a name for himself by translating musical notes into digital form and getting a computer to play Bach and Vivaldi through its loudspeaker. Originally, Chris regarded computers as remote and forbidding, but that changed when he was introduced to his first micro. "It looked real friendly," he says. "It didn't overpower you. It wasn't this ominous thing but something you could get close...
...learning how to program it. For this, the inexpensive, easy-to-operate personal computer, entirely self-contained and relying on equipment immediately at the student's side, is an ideal instrument-much more "user friendly," as manufacturers like to say, than big machines. Yet even with a handy micro, programming can overwhelm the uninitiated. The programmer and computer must "speak" a common language...
...modem (a telephone computer hookup), and taps out a password on his $685 home terminal. A few seconds later Marc is into an ARPANET computer, 3,000 miles away on the M.I.T. campus. Once in, he can call up such files as "humor," "scifi lovers" and "info micro"-a collection of computer brain teasers. This free play, however, may soon stop. The Government, which has long looked on "visiting" as an annoyance, is now eliminating telephone links and devising more complicated passwords...