Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ellison's dealmaking is aimed at forcing a revolution onto the PC industry. Today's software, he argues, is too complicated and loaded with gizmos no one ever uses. Worse, at several thousand dollars a pop, personal computers are anything but personal. Instead, he says, "PCs should be more like pencils," by which he means cheap, user-friendly and above all ubiquitous...
...better solution for protecting your data is to purchase a dedicated tape back-up drive for you Mac or PC, which can store the entire contents of your hard disk. These drives install easily into your computer or plug into the back of it. They use special tapes to store from 120 Mb or two gigabytes worth of files...
...PC CALL HOME: A DIME FROM ANYWHERE...
...second theory points to HDTV. Last week the fcc approved HDTV guidelines that will make today's TV obsolete by 2006, forcing some 100 million consumers to upgrade to digital idiot boxes. Since each TV will include a Web browser and E-mail, the PC industry is worried about a slide in demand. Microsoft wants to make dead certain that if HDTV dominates the market for operating systems, the system you will be using is its--even if that means using Windows to watch Seinfeld instead of MS Word...
While Hollywood and the Oscars toasted the crop of "independent" movies that blanketed the multiplexes last year, seasoned cineasts in search of pioneering film work kept flocking to the small screen of the PC. That's because the American Film Institute, through its online cinema on the Internet www.afionline.org/cinema) is showcasing the classics of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd--mavericks of the early 20th century's groundbreaking medium, silent film. With the help of VDOnet streaming video software, users have been able to watch real-time versions of such 20-min. shorts as Chaplin's The Rink...