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...office he frequently wheels around in a swivel chair to pluck a fact or figure from the IBM PC AT perched behind his big wooden desk. In the backseat of his chauffeured sedan, he taps away on the keyboard of a notebook-size Hewlett-Packard, stopping only when a sharp turn sends the little computer sliding off his knees. At home in bed, he parks the portable computer on his ample lap and reviews financial statistics, occasionally looking up to watch Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline...
Wanda Jaworski cannot imagine life without the IBM PC in her Hartford office. The Travelers Corp. underwriter now gets done in one day what used to take half a week, thanks to a new office information system that lets her gather research, analyze figures, exchange mail and edit drafts without leaving her keyboard...
...members who are out there are just pointing a finger. How many students would be willing to throw their IBM PC's and Kodak film out the window?" asked Jeffrey S. Bartel '88, a member of the Republican Club. "You are protesting authoritarianism by authoritarian rules," he added...
...Leaving aside the relative merits of a sound knowledge of computer programming in the post-PC era, I would submit that the knowledge required to pass the computer Quantitative Reasoning Requirement is of absolutely no practical use. I suspect, for instance, that NASA has already learned how to program a computer to countdown from a given number, and print "Blast-off!" in flashing letters on its computer screens...
...often done in the past, Symons sets his "comedy" in a thriving town just outside London, among attractive, successful, venal people. This crowd is all connected to PC Travel, a partnership between mean, porcine Charles Porson and charming, handsome Derek Crowley. The plot starts out with a littering of anonymous letters around town, accusing Crowley of an affair with Porson's pretty young wife. There are two clumsy attempts at murder and then two quite successful ones that occur on a PC tour of Venice. If the terrain is familiar to Symons, every detail is fresh, right down...