Word: modems
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fees that range from $5 to $15 a month, customers who apply for home banking receive floppy disks that enable them to link their personal computers via modem and telephone line to their bank's computer. After punching in a secret password, the home banker can display his current balances, confirm that deposits have been properly credited or call for an up-to-date listing of all the checks that have cleared. Ask a question about banking services, and the answer will be on the screen the next day. Bills from merchants who join an ever expanding roster provided...
...more difficult to assure. A moment's reflection on the Sloan-Kettering case described above shows why; whereas ten years ago access to computers was limited in most cases to users who could get into a terminal room, today anyone with an inexpensive personal (or "micro") computer and a modem (a device that allows computers to communicate over telephone lines) can access the majority of computers in the United States. [Its computer security] becoming more and more critical because we're getting our computers all hooked together through local and national networks; its also getting harder and harder because...
...camaraderie that developed in the mid-'70s, when personal computers were new and commercial software was scarce. Pioneer users, sharing their breakthroughs and building on one an other's work, traded programs much as Little Leaguers swap baseball cards. One of the most popular titles was MODEM, a 1977 program that allowed personal-computer owners to send programming instructions to one another by telephone. Its author, IBM Engineer Ward Christensen, takes pride in never having profited from his labor of love. Says he: "People sometimes send me money out of the blue, but I always send it back...
...then her crimes have escalated. She is now a member of the Front for the Liberation of Europe, a violent terrorist gang. The ingenuous Harvey is abruptly surrounded by lawyers and well-wishers who compound his confusion and television reporters who increase his distress. They are, of course, the modem equivalents of Job's comforters and plagues...
PASSOVER IS A TIME of tradition. The recent controversy over revisions in the Passover service's Haggadah to include references to the Holocaust, the civil rights movement and other modem trials alongside of the traditional story of the flight out of Egypt has shown that tradition dies hard. But even if you are revisionist, there is one tradition this Passover Season you should not miss-a trip to see the musical Fiddler on the Roof currently playing at Kirkland...