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...most important breakthroughs in recent years in such fields as semiconductors and bioengineering have been made by smaller companies. At the same time, large firms risk losing prized employees who have caught the entrepreneurial fever. In 1975 Stephen Wozniak, then a 25-year-old designer at Hewlett-Packard, went to his boss with the idea of a microcomputer that could be hooked up to a home television set. The firm was not interested. Wozniak therefore started his own company with Steven Jobs, a friend working at Atari. The company: Apple Computer. Sales last year: $1.5 billion...
...June 30, 1983, four of Harvard's six biggest stock holdings were companies with some operations in South Africa: IBM, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson and Hewlett-Packard. Investment in those companies totalled about $157 million
...ranging from the low-cost PCjr to the top-of-the-line IBM PC AT. To distinguish between these machines, consumers have to measure memory in kilobytes and disc storage in megabytes. To understand the pros and cons of IBM-compatible computers built by AT&T, Compaq or Hewlett-Packard, they must learn to identify silicon chips by name and measure their speeds in millions of cycles per second...
...security professionals who argue that so-called dedicated systems lose the flexibility and ease of communication that are precisely the most attractive qualities of computers. "It's not so simple as it was a few years ago. You can't just lock up a computer anymore," says Hewlett-Packard's Gerard. An internal letter on computer security distributed at the computer company in 1977 stressed just this kind of "lock and walk" security. However, Gerard says that "with terminals on more than 70% of the desks . . . you're really trying to protect the information now," rather than the access...
Some companies go even farther. The Hewlett-Packard site in Loveland is one example, the underground vault constructed in Rhode Island by a consortium of banks to store electronic data during a nuclear war is a another, and the subterranean vault run for AT&T by Vital Records, Inc, in Raritan N.J. is a third. Isn't that comforting; even after a nuclear war, you'll still get your telephone bill...