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...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...
Barring delays, Harvard's Intellipath system should be operational by September 1990, giving students access to voice mail and modem services, said Morris D. Murphy, Harvard's associate director of network services...
...able to fight city hall, but in Santa Monica, Calif., you can interrogate it by computer. Last week the city's new Public Electronic Network went on-line. As brochures mailed to residents advertised, PEN allows any citizen with a computer and a modem to communicate with city hall. Those who do not have a home computer can use any one of 20 public terminals set up at libraries and recreational centers...
...Deaf from birth, Marc Hagen, 17, had just about given up on school when his mother brought home an Apple IIe with a modem and showed him how to dial into the 200 or so computer bulletin boards in the Minneapolis area. "It just turned Marc around," reports Dolores Hagen. "Now he can talk to Bangkok if he wants, and if you saw my phone bill, you'd think...