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...terms of computers, Steen created a main UNIX machine ("fas"), installed the 35 Hewlett Packard workstations donated last year, split the mail and newsgroup servers off from each other to increase the efficiency of both and purchased a Net-work Appliance Box to distribute files more consistently across the network...
...time sharing that provided widespread access to computers. Then in the late '70s, the second generation invented and manufactured the personal computer. These nonacademic hackers were hard-core counterculture types -- like Steve Jobs, a Beatle- haired hippie who had dropped out of Reed College, and Steve Wozniak, a Hewlett-Packard engineer. Before their success with Apple, both Steves developed and sold ``blue boxes,'' outlaw devices for making free telephone calls. Their contemporary and early collaborator, Lee Felsenstein, who designed the first portable computer, known as the Osborne 1, was a New Left radical who wrote for the renowned underground paper...
...imparting his vision of America, Newt Gingrich has a way of dropping names. Say, Hewlett-Packard and Health South Inc. during his series of videotaped college lectures; Johnson & Johnson and other pharmaceutical giants in letters to the White House and the Food and Drug Administration. By coincidence or design, many of the name-dropped have deposited timely contributions to organizations linked to Gingrich. Disclosures about the favors and donations provoked growing scrutiny last week of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a Gingrich think tank that seems to churn as much cash as ideas. Declared Ellen Miller, executive director...
News of Gingrich's efforts on behalf of the two companies added to a growing ethical controversy. The House ethics committee is already looking into donations to GOPAC, the Gingrich-led political-action committee that received money from corporations like Hewlett-Packard. The committee is also probing his lucrative contract to write two books for media mogul Rupert Murdoch...
...largest U.S. operations affected were Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, Eli Lilly and Caterpillar. Procter & Gamble, which runs a $2 billion business in Japan, will be unable to use its 30-story office tower for several months, and is operating out of nearby Osaka. Lilly's main plant is still working but a new one, due to open this month, will need weeks of repair. Hewlett-Packard's electronics plant went back to work at 60% capacity last week. ``Shoot,'' says Dorwin Larsen, general manager of the Shin Caterpillar Mitsubishi joint venture in Kobe, ``it's not that significant...