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Companies, in general, seem pleased with what they are finding. Says Hewlett-Packard Recruiter John Arserio: "The caliber of students is up. More and more you're finding students with real work experience." Jan Blakslee, director of management and planning at American Hospital Supply Corp., declares, "We're looking for people who can think, who have the courage of their convictions, who can make decisions and demonstrate the kind of leadership qualities we value." Students with specialized and technical skills continue to have an edge. A top M.B.A. student from the business school of the University of Texas...
Other firms are joining in. Data General, Digital Equipment, Hewlett-Packard and Zenith are granting college administrators computer discounts of up to 75%. Hewlett-Packard offered to donate ten machines to each of 14 California high school districts, and last month Digital announced it would be giving $1.1 million worth of equipment to 46 schools in New England...
Although the New Orleans fair was supposed to be a show for software, the machine manufacturers could not be overlooked. The exhibition's main floor at the Superdome was dominated by the stands of the largest computer companies. Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment, NCR and IBM erected booths that dwarfed those of all but the biggest software firms. Apple's stand featured a 12-ft. scale model of its new Macintosh machine, and Chairman Steven Jobs delivered a keynote speech that tried to cast the event as a shootout between Apple...
...M.I.T.-trained electrical engineer with a Master's in business from Harvard, the Illinois-born Perkins went west 27 years ago to work at Hewlett-Packard, the Palo Alto, Calif., electronics firm. In 1966 he took $15,000 that he and his wife had been saving to buy a house and invested it in University Laboratories, a Berkeley, Calif., laser company. That stake returned $2 million and launched Perkins' career as a venture capitalist...
...only slightly bigger than a pack of cigarettes and priced at $99.95 and $129.95, are already hot sellers in the U.S. Another potential hit for Sony is its 3.5-in. micro-floppy-disc drive for personal computers, which can store a megabyte, or 1 million characters of information. Hewlett-Packard already includes the Sony device in its machines, Apple Computer will use it in its new Macintosh computer, and there are rumors that IBM is about to adopt it for future computers...