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...commanded 40% of sales, largely on the strength of the $1,995 PC, which had become an industry standard. Since then, however, a slew of small, feisty computer makers have stolen away a hefty chunk of IBM's business by building personal computers that run software written for IBM PCs but sell for a fraction of the cost. The sellers of these so-called IBM-compatibles, companies such as Leading Edge, Epson and Kaypro, have snared an impressive 36.4% of the personal-computer market, while IBM's share has fallen to 33%. Says John Roach, chairman of Tandy, which manufactures...
...monstrous Harvard system, students should be tested on microcomputers that half of the student body already owns and that the vast majority will have occasion to use in the future. At present, the Core staff is investigating the possibility of offering the test on Harvard's Macintoshes and IBM PCs in the Science Center terminal rooms...
Several word processing operations in the Square said they are also looking into laserprinting. Mulberry Studio on Mt. Auburn Street already uses the Hewlett Packard LaserJet printer with IBM PCs and Displaywriters. Cost for printing is 25 cents per page, and any formatting work done is charged at $25 an hour...
...virtual epidemic of lonely-terminal syndrome among IBM customers, who have bought nearly 3 million of PC's four current models. Growing impatient in the past year, PC users have been demanding a way to connect the machines. IBM responded in 1984 with a system for linking a few PCs, but business users clamored for a way to hook up hundreds of computers. Last week the company finally unveiled a so-called local-area network that can link as many as 260 devices, including its PCs and printers and other IBM-compatible models. Said Steven Milunovich, who follows the business...
Drexel was not the first college to make personal computers mandatory; in 1982 Stevens Institute required its science students to buy their own PCs, and in 1983 Clarkson and Dallas Baptist extended the idea to include all incoming freshmen. Now computers are required or strongly recommended at more than a dozen schools, including Carnegie-Mellon, Colby, Dartmouth, Drew, Franklin and Marshall, Lehigh, LeTourneau and Sweet Briar. But none of these schools has integrated the machines into its curriculum as thoroughly as Drexel has. And none has been as dramatically transformed by computers as the Philadelphia school...