Word: packards
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...Gates' strategy is getting the manufacturers of these machines to modify them so they will run his new programs. Judging by the blue-chip companies that will be sharing the dais with him when he unveils his system this week at the Hotel Macklowe in midtown Manhattan -- Hewlett-Packard, Ricoh, Compaq Computer, Minolta, McCaw Cellular, Canon, NEC and Northern Telecom -- he seems to have made remarkable progress. Says Paul Saffo, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future: "This may not be it, but it is one more step toward the Holy Grail of the paperless office...
...position at the starting gate. The telephone companies, with their switching networks already in place, want to build the superhighway and control what travels over it. The cable-TV companies, with their coaxial systems, think they should own the right-of-way. Computer companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun want to build the huge file servers that will act as video and information libraries. Such software companies as Microsoft and Apple want to build the operating systems that will serve as the data highway's traffic cops, controlling the flow of information to and from each viewer...
There are currently 250 students in the course sharing a total of 60 computers. Each Hewlett Packard 95 costs approximately...
Using a hand-held Macintosh, Mazur asks the students bonus questions while he lectures. The students then enter the answers on several Hewlett-Packard computers which circulate through the classroom. Mazur's Macintosh records the answers, grades them immediately, then stores the results...
Dunster also boasts a powerful work-station of Hewlett Packard computers, recently donated by house alum Walter B. Hewlett...