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...work for and are stockholders in the corporation, as well as several other workers who are hired as business requires. But Elvy and Langerman plan to keep the firm relatively small--and flexible. "We don't take too well to a structured job." Langerman says, citing his experience at Microsoft and Elvy's at IBM--where Elvy says he was forced to wear "IBM grey" every day, until one day he rebelled and wore plaid pants. "We work a heck of a lot better by ourselves," Langerman adds...
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...with one-line screens. The first full-screen model, Grid Systems' Compass computer, cost $8,150 when it was introduced in 1982. But falling prices for both flat-panel display screens and computer chips that require little energy have made lap-size computers affordable. Last year Seattle-based Microsoft and Japan's Kyocera came up with the first winner: an eight-line screen with a full-size keyboard that could be sold with built-in software for less than $800. Marketed in slightly different models by Radio Shack, NEC and Olivetti, the machine was an instant hit. Hewlett...
Travolta is not the only person entranced by computerized flight. Every day thousands of Americans climb into their armchairs, ease back on their joysticks and head for the electric blue skies of Microsoft's Flight Simulator, which runs on the IBM Personal Computer, or SubLogic's Flight Simulator II, a version for the Apple, Atari and Commodore machines. More than 200,000 copies of the $49.95 discs have been sold to a diverse corps of enthusiasts, from first-graders bored with their video games to professional pilots who cannot seem to get enough of their jobs. Some businessmen...
Gates, 28, has helped catapult Microsoft to the forefront of the software industry, and his list of customers includes every major manufacturer of personal computers. When IBM wanted an operating system for its Personal Computer, it turned to Gates. When Apple needed software for its Macintosh, it gave Microsoft a test model to use in writing the programs. Gates helped with the design of Radio Shack's Model 100, the first truly portable computer. Microsoft produced the MSX systems software that will be used for a new series of Japanese computers. Thanks to that business (and more), Gates...