Word: modem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before you leave Harvard for the Real World or even just for the Great Internship In D.C., get a few addresses, buy some stationery at Bob Slate's. If you're really ambitious, get a modem for your Mac and find out about electronic mail (it's cheaper than regular mail in the long run--and faster...
...this first major war of the computer age, journalists are as dependent on their software as on their wits, and the possibility that a modem will eat their copy lurks as menacingly as a bomb threat. Fortunately, TIME has Hope. As technology manager for the magazine's news service, Hope Almash is the link between correspondents in the field and editors in New York City. Says Almash: "Our correspondents are expected to report and write great stories, then have the wizardry to send them in. These are quite different skills. Some of our people, especially the younger ones, are computer...
...largely because, at up to $100,000, they were overpriced. The company later formed joint ventures with Convergent Technologies and Italy's Olivetti to make personal computers under the AT&T brand. It also formed a partnership with Sun and made a number of minor acquisitions, including Paradyne, a modem maker, and Istel, which customizes computer systems. But AT&T never managed to capture more than 3% of the market, and losses have mounted to as much as $3 billion. Rumors began to swirl about a possible merger as a quick fix. Among the known targets: EDS, Sperry, Digital Equipment...
...niche between desktop and laptop computers? The folks at Ergo Computing in Peabody, Mass., are hoping it is about as big as a Brick -- the name of the firm's unique portable. The 8.3-lb. Brick ($2,495 to $4,495) is a powerful desktop machine complete with modem and mouse, and enough muscle to store and quickly process the complete records of a small business...
...computer store. "I asked, 'How did you learn how to work it?' He turned to me and said, 'What are you, some kind of dummy?' " Determined not to be left behind, Clark acquired an Apple IIc and plunged into the world of telecommunications. Now he uses his computer and modem to stay in touch with similarly equipped seniors all over the U.S. Says he: "If I'm immobilized, if I'm in a hospital, if I'm in a condition where I'm confined, I've got my world right in front...