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With competition in the home computer field growing more intense, Apple plans to try for a major foothold in the office market. The company has a networking system that will enable as many as 32 Macintoshes to communicate with one another and a high-quality printer known as the LaserWriter. But Apple will have to go head-to-head with IBM, which dominates the corporate computer scene the way Hulk Hogan lords over a wrestling ring. IBM holds about 40% of the market for office sales of personal computers, compared with Apple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down Time for Computers | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...intending to buy just the Macintosh with the external disk drive '88, "but when I called the Technology Product Center I was told that I could get the same package with a printer for only about $170 more, so I got that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Cuts Prices Of Macintosh by $300 | 3/6/1985 | See Source »

...Scientific Games developed the idea for instant-win lotteries. The concept was based on promotional contests that Scientific, then barely a year old, had been selling to businesses. Scientific now acts as the sales agent for the games, performing all marketing, design and administrative work, while Dittler is the printer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackpot! Two firms win the lottery prize | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Dittler was founded in 1902 by Brothers Emil and Alex Dittler as a printer of railroad schedules. But by the 1970s it had expanded its product range to include business cards, hotel directories and contest tickets. Says Dittler Chairman Gilbert Bachman: "We had already produced literally billions of promotional game tickets for other companies, so it was just a matter of taking our know-how and applying it to the instant lottery ticket concept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackpot! Two firms win the lottery prize | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...face of this nation is decisively shaped by the Federal Government. It is the country's largest single builder, printer and design client for objects as various as power dams, monuments and postage stamps. The looks and liveliness of Government buildings often determine the vitality of town squares and city centers. Federal highways and public works enhance or mar the American landscape. The appearance of Government signs, pamphlets and questionnaires can make life easy or irritating for citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Toward a Handsome America | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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