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...turning into telephones, and PCs into video games...
...surprise and disappointment were shared by perhaps hundreds of thousands of other buyers this Christmas, who purchased home computers only to discover that the accursed things didn't work -- or at least didn't work well. While 1994 was a record breaker for the computer industry (18.4 million PCs shipped to stores), many analysts are wondering if 1995 won't be remembered as the Year of the Returns...
...users. This was the year when millions of Americans -- having resisted the computer industry's blandishments for more than a decade -- finally made the plunge. And that may spell big changes for the industry. In the past, according to Liz Buyer, an analyst at T. Rowe Price, people put PCs in their dens primarily so they could bring work home; now they seem to be buying computers as they buy TVs -- for their entertainment value...
...stores). Brandishing its own laboratory research, IBM contended that the chip's mistakes were far more frequent than Intel had let on. Said G. Richard Thoman, an IBM senior vice president: "We believe no one should have to wonder about the integrity of data calculated on IBM PCs." Some industry observers suggested that IBM may have had ulterior motives for knocking Intel's quality, since Big Blue will begin selling the competing Power PC microprocessor next spring, but the computer maker insisted it was only trying to protect its customers...
Hawkins' strategy is to stay just ahead of his competitors -- whether they are PCs, CD-ROMs or video-game systems. So his next project is a plug-in device called the M2 that turns the 32-bit 3DO into a 64-bit system -- yet still plays all the old software. That's if he makes it through Christmas...